East Amazonian fire-eye

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East Amazonian fire-eye
male
Pyriglena leuconota - White-backed Fire-eye
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thamnophilidae
Genus: Pyriglena
Species:
P. leuconota
Binomial name
Pyriglena leuconota
(von Spix, 1824)
Synonyms

Pyriglena castanoptera Chubb, 1916
Pyriglena pacifica Chapman, 1923

The East Amazonian fire-eye (Pyriglena leuconota) is an insectivorous bird in the antbird family Thamnophilidae. It is found in Brazil. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Taxonomy

The East Amazonian fire-eye was described and illustrated by the German naturalist Johann Baptist von Spix in 1824 and given the binomial name Myothera leuconota.[2] The current genus Pyriglena was introduced by the German ornithologist Jean Cabanis in 1847.[3]

References

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Pyriglena leuconota". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22730396A95027645. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22730396A95027645.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ von Spix, Johann Baptist (1824). Avium species novae, quas in itinere per Brasiliam annis MDCCCXVII-MDCCCXX (in Latin). Vol. 1. Monachii (Munich): Typis Franc. Seraph. Hübschmanni. p. 72, Plate 72 fig. 2.
  3. ^ Cabanis, Jean (1847). "Ornithologische notizen". Archiv für Naturgeschichte (in German). 13: 186–256 [211].

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