Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Thamnophilidae > Myrmeciza > Myrmeciza atrothorax

Myrmeciza atrothorax (Black-throated Antbird)

Synonyms: Formicarius atrothorax (homotypic); Myrmophylax atrothorax (homotypic); Myrmophylax atrothorax atrothorax

Wikipedia Abstract

The black-throated antbird (Myrmeciza atrothorax) is a species of bird in the family Thamnophilidae. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.
View Wikipedia Record: Myrmeciza atrothorax

Infraspecies

Myrmeciza atrothorax atrothorax
Myrmeciza atrothorax griseiventris
Myrmeciza atrothorax maynana
Myrmeciza atrothorax melanura
Myrmeciza atrothorax metae
Myrmeciza atrothorax obscurata
Myrmeciza atrothorax tenebrosa

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
25
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 10.1766
EDGE Score: 2.41382
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  16.5 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates)
Diet - Ectothermic [2]  10 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  90 %
Forages - Understory [2]  40 %
Forages - Ground [2]  60 %
Clutch Size [1]  2

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Cerrado Brazil No

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0