The jet antbird (''Cercomacra nigricans'') is a species of
bird in the family
Thamnophilidae. It is found in
Colombia
Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...
,
Venezuela,
Panama and western
Ecuador. Its natural
habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland
forests.
The jet antbird was
described by the English zoologist
Philip Sclater in 1858 and given its current
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 ...
''Cercomacra nigricans''.
References
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Birds of Colombia
Birds of Ecuador
Birds of Panama
Birds of Venezuela
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Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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