The southern chestnut-tailed antbird (''Sciaphylax hemimelaena'') is a species of
passerine
A passerine () is any bird of the order Passeriformes (; from Latin 'sparrow' and '-shaped'), which includes more than half of all bird species. Sometimes known as perching birds, passerines are distinguished from other orders of birds by t ...
bird in the family
Thamnophilidae. It is found in the
Amazon Rainforest
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in far southern
Colombia
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, eastern
Peru
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, image_coat = Escudo nacional del Perú.svg
, other_symbol = Great Seal of the State
, other_symbol_type = Seal (emblem), National seal
, national_motto = "Fi ...
, northern
Bolivia
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, and western and central
Brazil
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.
The southern chestnut-tailed antbird was
originally described by the English zoologist
Philip Sclater in 1857 and given the
binomial name
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...
''Myrmeciza emimelaena''. A
molecular phylogenetic
Molecular phylogenetics () is the branch of phylogeny that analyzes genetic, hereditary molecular differences, predominantly in DNA sequences, to gain information on an organism's evolutionary relationships. From these analyses, it is possible to ...
study published in 2013 found that the genus ''
Myrmeciza
The white-bellied antbird (''Myrmeciza longipes''), is a passerine bird which breeds in the tropical New World from Panama to northern Brazil and in Trinidad
Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands of Trinidad an ...
'', as then defined, was
polyphyletic.
In the resulting rearrangement to create
monophyletic
In cladistics for a group of organisms, monophyly is the condition of being a clade—that is, a group of taxa composed only of a common ancestor (or more precisely an ancestral population) and all of its lineal descendants. Monophyletic gro ...
genera the southern chestnut-tailed antbird and the
northern chestnut-tailed antbird were moved to a newly erected genus ''
Sciaphylax''.
References
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Birds of the Amazon rainforest
Birds of the Bolivian Amazon
Birds of the Ecuadorian Amazon
Birds of the Peruvian Amazon
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