The squamate antbird (''Myrmoderus squamosus'') is a species of bird in the family Thamnophilidae. It is endemic to Brazil. Its natural habitats are

subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests (TSMF), also known as tropical moist forest, is a subtropical and tropical forest habitat type defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature. Description TSMF is generally found in large, discont ...

and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. The squamate antbird was described by the Austrian ornithologist August von Pelzeln in 1868 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 squamosa''. 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 ''

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 ...

'' was polyphyletic. In the resulting rearrangement to create monotypic genera four species including the squamate antbird were moved to the resurrected genus '' Myrmoderus''.

References

Myrmoderus Birds of the Atlantic Forest Endemic birds of Brazil Birds described in 1868 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Thamnophilidae-stub