Mouse-colored antshrike

Mouse-colored antshrike
	Sacha Lodge - Ecuador
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Thamnophilidae
Genus:	Thamnophilus
Species:	T. murinus
Binomial name
	Thamnophilus murinus; Sclater & Salvin, 1868

The mouse-colored antshrike (Thamnophilus murinus) 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.

The mouse-colored antshrike was described by the English ornithologists Philip Sclater and Osbert Salvin in 1868 and given its current binomial name Thamnophilus murinus.[2]

References

BirdLife International (2012). "Thamnophilus murinus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)old-form url
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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[1] BirdLife International (2012). "Thamnophilus murinus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)old-form url

[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.