Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Thamnophilidae > Myrmeciza > Myrmeciza hemimelaenaMyrmeciza hemimelaena (Southern Chestnut-tailed Antbird)Synonyms: Sciaphylax hemimelaena (homotypic); Sciaphylax hemimelaena hemimelaena The southern chestnut-tailed antbird (Myrmeciza hemimelaena), is a species of bird in the family Thamnophilidae. It is found in the Amazon Rainforest in far southern Colombia, eastern Ecuador, eastern Peru, northern Bolivia, and western and central Brazil. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 7.23803 EDGE Score: 2.10876 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 16 grams |  | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates) | | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 100 % | | Forages - Understory [2] | 50 % | | Forages - Ground [2] | 50 % | | | Clutch Size [3] | 2 |
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Species |
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Beni savanna |
Bolivia |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Cerrado |
Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Chiquitano dry forests |
Bolivia, Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Gurupa varzea |
Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Iquitos varzea |
Brazil, Peru, Bolivia |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Juruá-Purus moist forests |
Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Madeira-Tapajós moist forests |
Brazil, Bolivia |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Napo moist forests |
Colombia, Venezuela, Peru |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Purus varzea |
Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Purus-Madeira moist forests |
Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Solimões-Japurá moist forest |
Brazil, Colombia, Peru |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Southwest Amazon moist forests |
Peru, Brazil, Bolivia |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Tapajós-Xingu moist forests |
Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Ucayali moist forests |
Peru |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Weske, JS 1972. The distribution
of the avifauna in the Apurimac Valley of Peru with respect to environmental gradients, habitat, and related species. Ph.D. diss., Univ. Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma ♦ 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 ♦ 3Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
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
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