Spix's warbling antbird

Spix's warbling antbird
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Thamnophilidae
Genus:	Hypocnemis
Species:	H. striata
Binomial name
Hypocnemis striata (Spix, 1825)
Synonyms
Hypocnemis cantator striata

Spix's warbling antbird (Hypocnemis striata) is a species of bird in the family Thamnophilidae. Until recently, it was considered a subspecies of Hypocnemis cantator, but based on vocal differences and to a lesser degree differences in plumage, it has been recommended treating them as separate species. As presently defined, Spix's warbling antbird includes two subspecies, H. s. implicata and H. s. affinis. The westernmost population is likely to represent an undescribed subspecies. Spix's warbling antbird is found at lower levels in humid forest in the south-eastern Amazon of Brazil.

The common name commemorates the German naturalist Johann Baptist von Spix (1782–1826), who described the species in 1825.^[2]

References

1. BirdLife International (2012). "Hypocnemis striata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
2. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. p. 319.

• Isler, Isler, & Whitney. 2007. Species limits in antbirds (Thamnophilidae): The Warbling Antbird (Hypocnemis cantator) complex. The Auk. 124(1): 11–28.
• Zimmer & Isler. 2003. Hypocnemis cantator (Warbling Antbird). Pp. 645 in del Hoyo, Elliott, & Christie. 2003. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Vol. 8. Broadbills to Tapaculos. Lynx Edictions. Barcelona.
• Split Hypocnemis cantator by elevating H. flavescens, peruviana, subflava, ochrogyna and striata to species rank. South American Classification Committee. Accessed June 27, 2008
• Spix's Warbling Antbird arthurgrosset.com. Accessed June 27, 2008