Black antshrike
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Thamnophilidae |
| Genus: | Thamnophilus |
| Species: | T. nigriceps
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| Thamnophilus nigriceps Sclater, PL, 1869
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The black antshrike (Thamnophilus nigriceps) is a species of insectivorous bird in the antbird family Thamnophilidae. It is found in Colombia and Panama. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.
The black antshrike was described by the English zoologist Philip Sclater in 1869 and given its current binomial name Thamnophilus nigriceps.[2]
References
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Thamnophilus nigriceps". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22701296A93822262. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22701296A93822262.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ Sclater, Philip L. (1868). "Descriptions of some new or little-know species of Formicarians". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (3): 571–575 [571]. The volume is dated 1868 but the issue was published in the following year.
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