Yellow-browed antbird

The yellow-browed antbird (Hypocnemis hypoxantha) is a species of bird in the family Thamnophilidae. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Yellow-browed antbird
at Manacapuru, Amazonas state, Brazil.

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thamnophilidae
Genus: Hypocnemis
Species:
H. hypoxantha
Binomial name
Hypocnemis hypoxantha
Sclater, 1869

The yellow-browed antbird was described by the English zoologist Philip Sclater in 1869 and given its current binomial name Hypocnemis hypoxantha.[2]

References

  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Hypocnemis hypoxantha". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. Sclater, Philip L. (1868). "Descriptions of some new or little-know species of Formicarians". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (3): 571–575 [573]. The volume is dated 1868 but the issue was published in the following year.
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