''Hypocnemoides'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...

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 th ...

bird Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweig ...

in the

antbird The antbirds are a large passerine bird family, Thamnophilidae, found across subtropical and tropical Central and South America, from Mexico to Argentina. There are more than 230 species, known variously as antshrikes, antwrens, antvireos, fir ...

family, Thamnophilidae. It contains two species, the

black-chinned antbird The black-chinned antbird (''Hypocnemoides melanopogon'') is a species of bird in the family Thamnophilidae. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or ...

(''H. melanopogon'') and the

band-tailed antbird The band-tailed antbird (''Hypocnemoides maculicauda'') is a species of bird in the family Thamnophilidae. It is found in the Amazon Basin south of the river Amazon (Bolivia, Brazil and Peru). Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical swam ...

(''H. maculicauda'').Ridgely, Robert S. & Guy Tudor (1994) ''The Birds of South America, volume 2: the Suboscine Passerines'', University of Texas Press. They are found in swampy areas of northern

South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the sou ...

. There is limited overlap in their distributions with the

occurring to the south of the

Amazon River The Amazon River (, ; es, Río Amazonas, pt, Rio Amazonas) in South America is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and the disputed longest river system in the world in comparison to the Nile. The headwaters of t ...

and the

mainly found to the north. They are fairly small birds, 11.5–12 cm in length, with a short tail and longish bill.Schulenberg, Thomas S.; Douglas F. Stotz, Daniel F. Lane, John P. O'Neill & Theodore A. Parker III (2007) ''Field Guide to the Birds of Peru'', Christopher Helm, London. Their

plumage Plumage ( "feather") is a layer of feathers that covers a bird and the pattern, colour, and arrangement of those feathers. The pattern and colours of plumage differ between species and subspecies and may vary with age classes. Within species, ...

is grey with areas of black and white. They forage for food near water in the understorey or on the ground. The name ''Hypocnemoides'' is a combination of the genus name ''

Hypocnemis ''Hypocnemis'' is a genus of passerine birds in the family Thamnophilidae. They are resident breeders in tropical Central and South America. The genus ''Hypocnemis'' was introduced by the German ornithologist Jean Cabanis in 1847. The name comb ...

'' and ''-oides'' (

Greek Greek may refer to: Greece Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group. *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family. **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...

for "resembling").Jobling, James A. (2010) ''Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names'', 2nd ed., Christopher Helm, London. The genus contains two species: *

Black-chinned antbird The black-chinned antbird (''Hypocnemoides melanopogon'') is a species of bird in the family Thamnophilidae. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or ...

, ''Hypocnemoides melanopogon'' *

Band-tailed antbird The band-tailed antbird (''Hypocnemoides maculicauda'') is a species of bird in the family Thamnophilidae. It is found in the Amazon Basin south of the river Amazon (Bolivia, Brazil and Peru). Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical swam ...

, ''Hypocnemoides maculicauda''

References

Bird genera Taxa named by Thomas Edward Penard Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Thamnophilidae-stub