Black antshrike

Black antshrike
	Female - Illustration by Joseph Smit, 1890
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Thamnophilidae
Genus:	Thamnophilus
Species:	T. nigriceps
Binomial name
	Thamnophilus nigriceps; Sclater, 1869

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

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^ 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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[2] 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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