The sooty antbird (Hafferia fortis) is a species of bird in the family Thamnophilidae. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.[2]
| Sooty antbird | |
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| male | |
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| female | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Thamnophilidae |
| Genus: | Hafferia |
| Species: | H. fortis |
| Binomial name | |
| Hafferia fortis (Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1868) | |
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| Synonyms | |
Myrmeciza fortis | |
The sooty antbird was described and illustrated by the English ornithologists Philip Sclater and Osbert Salvin in 1868 and given the binomial name Percnostola fortis.[3] The species was later included in the genus Myrmeciza. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2013 found that Myrmeciza was polyphyletic.[4] In the resulting rearrangement to create monophyletic genera the sooty antbird was moved to the newly erected genus Hafferia.[5]
References
Further reading
- Cerón-Cardona, J.; Londoño, G.A. (2017). "Nesting biology of the Sooty Antbird (Hafferia fortis) in southeastern Peru". Wilson Journal of Ornithology. 129 (3): 576–585. doi:10.1676/16-020.1. S2CID 90550490.