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Myrmothera simplex (Tepui Antpitta)

Wikipedia Abstract

The tepui antpitta or brown-breasted antpitta (Myrmothera simplex) is a species of bird in the Grallariidae family. It occurs in Venezuela, western Guyana and far northern Roraima. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
View Wikipedia Record: Myrmothera simplex

Infraspecies

Myrmothera simplex duidae
Myrmothera simplex guaiquinimae
Myrmothera simplex pacaraimae
Myrmothera simplex simplex

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
23
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 8.29705
EDGE Score: 2.2297
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  52 grams
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Clutch Size [3]  2

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Pantepuis Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, Brazil Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

Important Bird Areas

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Barber, B. R., AND M. B. Robbins. 2002. Nest and eggs of the Tepui Antpitta (Myrmothera simplex). Wilson Bulletin 114:287–288.
♦ 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
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