Automolus
| Automolus | |
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| White-eyed foliage-gleaner (Automolus leucophthalmus) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Furnariidae |
| Genus: | Automolus Reichenbach, 1853 |
| Type species | |
| Sphenura sulphurascens White-eyed foliage-gleaner Lichtenstein, MHK, 1823
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Automolus is a genus of bird in the ovenbird family
Furnariidae
.
Taxonomy
The genus Automolus was introduced in 1853 by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach to accommodate the taxon Sphenura sulphurascens Lichtenstein, now treated as a subspecies of the white-eyed foliage-gleaner.[1][2] The name is from the Ancient Greek automolos meaning "deserter".[3]
Species
The genus contains 11 species:[4]
- Chestnut-crowned foliage-gleaner, Automolus rufipileatus
- Brown-rumped foliage-gleaner, Automolus melanopezus
- Ochre-throated foliage-gleaner, Automolus ochrolaemus
- Fawn-throated foliage-gleaner, Automolus cervinigularis
- Chiriqui foliage-gleaner, Automolus exsertus – split from buff-throated foliage-gleaner
- Eastern woodhaunter, Automolus subulatus – formerly in Hyloctistes (previously striped woodhaunter)
- Western woodhaunter, Automolus virgatus – split from eastern woodhaunter
- Olive-backed foliage-gleaner, Automolus infuscatus
- Para foliage-gleaner, Automolus paraensis
- Pernambuco foliage-gleaner, Automolus lammi – split from white-eyed foliage-gleaner [5]
- White-eyed foliage-gleaner, Automolus leucophthalmus
The tepui foliage-gleaner has been placed in this genus, but behavior, voice, and morphology all point to it belonging in Syndactyla,[6] and molecular data confirmed this hypothesis.[7]
The
Hyloctistes but molecular evidence showed that it was nested in Automolus.[8] The ruddy foliage-gleaner and the Santa Marta foliage-gleaner, formerly placed in Automolus, are actually more closely related to Clibanornis foliage-gleaners.[8]
References
- ^ Reichenbach, Ludwig (1853). "Icones ad synopsin avium No. 10 Scansoriae A". Handbuch der speciellen Ornithologie (in German). Vol. 6. Dresden und Leipzig: Expedition Vollständigsten Naturgeschichte. pp. 145–218 [146, 173–174].
- ^ Peters, James Lee, ed. (1951). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 7. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 133.
- ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Ovenbirds, woodcreepers". World Bird List Version 9.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
- S2CID 85713508.
- ^ Zimmer, K. J., Robbins, M. B., & Kopuchiam, C. (2008). Taxonomy, vocalisations, syringeal morphology and natural history of Automolus roraimae (Furnariidae). Bulletin B.O.U. 128: 187–206.
- PMID 21967436.
- ^ S2CID 59375772.