Southern chestnut-tailed antbird
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Sciaphylax hemimelaena

The southern chestnut-tailed antbird (Sciaphylax hemimelaena ) is a species of passerine bird in the family Thamnophilidae. It is found in the Amazon Rainforest in far southern Colombia, eastern Peru, northern Bolivia, 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 Myrmeciza emimelaena. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2013 found that the genus Myrmeciza, as then defined, was polyphyletic. In the resulting rearrangement to create monophyletic genera the southern chestnut-tailed antbird and the northern chestnut-tailed antbird were moved to a newly erected genus Sciaphylax.

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Southern chestnut-tailed antbird habitat map

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Southern chestnut-tailed antbird
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References

1. Southern chestnut-tailed antbird Wikipedia article - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_chestnut-tailed_antbird
2. Southern chestnut-tailed antbird on The IUCN Red List site - https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22733838/95066516
3. Xeno-canto bird call - https://xeno-canto.org/684881

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