Dusky-throated antshrike

The dusky-throated antshrike (Thamnomanes ardesiacus) is a species of bird in the family Thamnophilidae. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Dusky-throated antshrike
male at Xapuri, Acre, Brazil.
Audio recording made in Ecuador

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thamnophilidae
Genus: Thamnomanes
Species:
T. ardesiacus
Binomial name
Thamnomanes ardesiacus
(Sclater & Salvin, 1868)

The dusky-throated antshrike was described by the English ornithologists Philip Sclater and Osbert Salvin in 1868 and given the binomial name Dysithamnus ardesiacus.[2]

References

  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Thamnomanes ardesiacus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. Sclater, Philip L.; Salvin, Osbert (1867). "Catalogue of birds collected by Mr. E. Bartlett on the River Huallaga, Eastern Peru, with notes and descriptions of new species". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (3): 748–759 [750, 756]. The volume is dated 1867 but the issue was published in the following year.
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