Kingdom Animalia Tribe Pithyini Phylum Chordata Rank Genus | Family Thamnophilidae Scientific name Drymophila Higher classification Antbird Order Passerine | |
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Lower classifications Ferruginous antbird, Scaled antbird, Bertoni's antbird, Dusky‑tailed antbird, East Andean antbird | ||
Drymophila squamata scaled antbird
Drymophila is a bird genus in the antbird family (Thamnophilidae). It is a relative of the typical antwrens.
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Drymophila squamata pintadinho scaled antbird
Extant species
The genus Drymophila contains the following nine species:
Former species
Formerly, some authorities also considered the following species (or subspecies) as species within the genus Drymophila:
Range
Six of the Drymophila species are associated with regions of southeastern Brazil; two of these - Bertoni's and dusky-tailed antbird - also range into eastern Paraguay and extreme northeastern Argentina.
Even at their highest diversity in Brazil's Mata Atlântica, the species are almost completely parapatric, in some cases like the dusky-tailed and scaled antbird even to exclusive habitat preferences. Of course, the rampant deforestation in that region may obscure that there has been more overlap in the past. In any case, habitat fragments strongly tend to hold at most a single species.
D. devillei, the striated antbird, is a species of the southwestern quadrant of the Amazon Basin, and a disjunct population lives in north-western Ecuador and adjacent parts of Colombia.