Sakesphorus
Appearance
Sakesphorus | |
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Female black-crested antshrike | |
Female glossy antshrike | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Thamnophilidae |
Genus: | Sakesphorus Chubb, 1918 |
Type species | |
Lanius canadensis Linnaeus, 1766
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Species | |
2, see text |
Sakesphorus is a genus of passerine birds in the antbird family, Thamnophilidae.
The genus Sakesphorus was erected by the British ornithologist Charles Chubb in 1918 with the black-crested antshrike as the type species.[1] The name of genus is from the Ancient Greek sakesphoros "shield-bearing", from sakos "shield" and -phoros "-bearing".[2]
The genus contains the following species:[3]
- Black-crested antshrike (Sakesphorus canadensis)
- Glossy antshrike (Sakesphorus luctuosus)
References
[edit]- ^ Chubb, Charles (1918). "Descriptions of new genera and a new subspecies of South American birds". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. series 9. 2 (7): 122–124 [123]. doi:10.1080/00222931808562350.
- ^ Jobling, J.A. (2018). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Antbirds". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 4 February 2018.
Further reading
[edit]- Brumfield, R.T.; Edwards, S.V. (2007). "Evolution into and out of the Andes: a Bayesian analysis of historical diversification in Thamnophilus antshrikes". Evolution. 61 (2): 346–367. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00039.x. PMID 17348945.