''Sakesphorus'' 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 n ...

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 ...

birds in the antbird family, Thamnophilidae. The genus ''Sakesphorus'' was erected by the British ornithologist Charles Chubb in 1918 with the

black-crested antshrike The black-crested antshrike (''Sakesphorus canadensis'') is a passerine bird in the antbird family. It is a resident breeder in tropical South America in Trinidad, Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, northern Brazil and northeastern Peru. It is u ...

as the

type species In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen( ...

. The name of genus is from the

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''sakesphoros '' "shield-bearing", from ''sakos'' "shield" and ''-phoros'' "-bearing". The genus contains the following species: *

Black-crested antshrike The black-crested antshrike (''Sakesphorus canadensis'') is a passerine bird in the antbird family. It is a resident breeder in tropical South America in Trinidad, Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, northern Brazil and northeastern Peru. It is u ...

(''Sakesphorus canadensis'') *

Glossy antshrike The glossy antshrike (''Sakesphorus luctuosus'') is a species of bird in the family Thamnophilidae, the antbirds. The glossy antshrike is endemic to Brazil, and can only be found near the Amazon River's outlet at the western Atlantic Ocean, and ...

(''Sakesphorus luctuosus'')

References

* Bird genera Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Thamnophilidae-stub