Pearly antshrike
| Pearly antshrike | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Thamnophilidae |
| Genus: | Megastictus Ridgway, 1909 |
| Species: | M. margaritatus
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| Megastictus margaritatus (PL Sclater, 1855)
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The pearly antshrike (Megastictus margaritatus) is a species of bird in the family Thamnophilidae. It is monotypic within the genus Megastictus.[2] It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela, where its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.[1]
The pearly antshrike was described by the English zoologist Philip Sclater in 1855 and given the binomial name Myrmeciza margaritatus.[3] The genus Megastictus was erected by the American ornithologist Robert Ridgway in 1909.[4]
References
- ^ a b BirdLife International (2012). "Megastictus margaritatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
{{cite journal}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - ^ "ITIS Report: Megastictus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 8 August 2014.
- ^ Sclater, Philip L. (1854). "Descriptions of six new species of birds of the subfamily Formicarinae". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 22 (275): 253–255 [253] Plate 71. The title page gives the year 1854 but the volume was not published until the following year.
- ^ Ridgway, Robert (1909). "New genera, species and subspecies of Formicariidae, Furnariidae, and Dendrocolaptidae". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 22: 69–74 [69].
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