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Spix's woodcreeper

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Spix's woodcreeper
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Aves
Order:
Passeriformes
Family:
Furnariidae
Subfamily:
Dendrocolaptinae
Tribe:
Dendrocolaptini
Genus:
Xiphorhynchus
Species:
X. spixii
Binomial name
Xiphorhynchus spixii
(Lesson, 1830)

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

  1. ^ Template:IUCN
  2. ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. p. 319.


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