Spix's woodcreeper
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Species: | X. spixii
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Xiphorhynchus spixii (Lesson, 1830)
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The Spix's woodcreeper (Xiphorhynchus spixii) is a species of bird in the woodcreeper subfamily (Dendrocolaptinae). The elegant woodcreeper was previously considered a subspecies of the Spix's woodcreeper. It is endemic to humid lowland forest in the eastern Amazon of Brazil.
The common name commemorates the German naturalist Johann Baptist von Spix (1782-1826).[2]
References
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- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. p. 319.