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Appearance
| Grallaria | |
|---|---|
| Chestnut-crowned antpitta (Grallaria ruficapilla) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Grallariidae |
| Genus: | Grallaria Vieillot, 1816 |
| Type species | |
| Formicarius varius[1] Boddaert, 1783 | |
| Species | |
|
47, see text. | |
Grallaria is a large genus of Neotropical birds in the antpitta family Grallariidae.
Taxonomy
[edit]The genus was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816 with the variegated antpitta (Grallaria varia) as the type species.[2][3] The genus name is from Neo-Latin grallarius meaning "stilt-walker".[4]
Species
[edit]The genus contains the following 47 species[5][6]
| Image | Common name | Scientific name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Undulated antpitta | Grallaria squamigera | northern Andes | |
| Giant antpitta | Grallaria gigantea | northern Andes of Colombia and Ecuador | |
| - | Great antpitta | Grallaria excelsa | mountains of northwestern Venezuela |
| Variegated antpitta | Grallaria varia | Amazonia and Atlantic Forest | |
| Scaled antpitta | Grallaria guatimalensis | Central America and northwestern South America | |
| Moustached antpitta | Grallaria alleni | northern Andes of Colombia and Ecuador | |
| - | Tachira antpitta | Grallaria chthonia | Venezuelan Andes montane forests |
| Plain-backed antpitta | Grallaria haplonota | northern Andes and Venezuelan Coastal Range | |
| Ochre-striped antpitta | Grallaria dignissima | north of the Marañón River | |
| - | Elusive antpitta | Grallaria eludens | western Amazonia |
| Santa Marta antpitta | Grallaria bangsi | Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta | |
| Chestnut-crowned antpitta | Grallaria ruficapilla | northern Andes | |
| Cundinamarca antpitta | Grallaria kaestneri | Cordillera Oriental (Colombia) | |
| Watkins's antpitta | Grallaria watkinsi | Tumbes | |
| Stripe-headed antpitta | Grallaria andicolus | Peruvian Andes | |
| Chestnut-naped antpitta | Grallaria nuchalis | northern Andes of Colombia and Ecuador | |
| Jocotoco antpitta | Grallaria ridgelyi | Chinchipe River and Cordillera del Cóndor | |
| Pale-billed antpitta | Grallaria carrikeri | Andes of northern Peru | |
| Yellow-breasted antpitta | Grallaria flavotincta | northern Andes of Colombia and Ecuador | |
| White-bellied antpitta | Grallaria hypoleuca | northern Andes | |
| Rusty-tinged antpitta | Grallaria przewalskii | Andes of northern Peru | |
| Bay antpitta | Grallaria capitalis | Andes of central Peru | |
| Red-and-white antpitta | Grallaria erythroleuca | Andes of southern Peru | |
| White-throated antpitta | Grallaria albigula | Yungas and southern Andean Yungas | |
| - | Grey-naped antpitta | Grallaria griseonucha | Venezuelan Andes montane forests |
| Perija antpitta | Grallaria saltuensis | Serranía del Perijá | |
| Sierra Nevada antpitta | Grallaria spatiator | Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta | |
| Muisca antpitta | Grallaria rufula | Andes of eastern Colombia and western Venezuela | |
| Bicolored antpitta | Grallaria rufocinerea | Cauca and upper Magdalena valley | |
| Chami antpitta | Grallaria alvarezi | west of the Cauca River | |
| Equatorial antpitta | Grallaria saturata | east of the Cauca River, lower Magdalena valley and Ecuador | |
| - | Cajamarca antpitta | Grallaria cajamarcae | west of the Huancabamba and upper Marañón river |
| Chachapoyas antpitta | Grallaria graves | south of Marañón and north of Huallaga river | |
| Panao antpitta | Grallaria oneilli | south of Huallaga and north of Perené river | |
| Junin antpitta | Grallaria obscura | between the rio Perené, Ene and Apurímac | |
| Urubamba antpitta | Grallaria occabambae | Yanatili river | |
| Puno antpitta | Grallaria sinaensis | south of Sandia river (Peru) and north of Constanta river (Bolivia) | |
| - | Bolivian antpitta | Grallaria cochabambae | Bolivian Andes |
| Chestnut antpitta | Grallaria blakei | Cordillera Oriental (Peru) | |
| Oxapampa antpitta | Grallaria centralis | from the Huallaga to the Mantaro river | |
| Ayacucho antpitta | Grallaria ayacuchensis | between the rio Mantaro, Pampa and Apurímac | |
| Rufous-faced antpitta | Grallaria erythrotis | Yungas and Bolivian Andes | |
| Tawny antpitta | Grallaria quitensis | northern Andes | |
| Boyaca antpitta | Grallaria alticola | Cordillera Oriental (Colombia) | |
| Atuen antpitta | Grallaria atuensis | northern Cordillera Oriental (Peru) | |
| Brown-banded antpitta | Grallaria milleri | Cordillera Central (Colombia) | |
| Urrao antpitta | Grallaria urraoensis | Páramo del Sol, Colombia | |
References
[edit]- ↑ "Grallariidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
- ↑ Vieillot, Louis Pierre (1816). Analyse d'une Nouvelle Ornithologie Élémentaire (in French). Paris: Deterville/self. p. 43.
- ↑ Peters, James Lee, ed. (1951). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 7. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 262.
- ↑ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 177. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2023). "Antthrushes, antpittas, gnateaters, tapaculos, crescentchests". IOC World Bird List Version 13.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
- ↑ Isler, Morton L.; Chesser, R. Terry; Robbins, Mark B.; Cuervo, Andrés M.; Cadena, Carlos Daniel; Hosner, Peter A. (2020-07-21). "Taxonomic evaluation of the Grallaria rufula (Rufous Antpitta) complex (Aves: Passeriformes: Grallariidae) distinguishes sixteen species". Zootaxa. 4817 (1): 74. Bibcode:2020Zoot.4817...74I. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4817.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 33055681. S2CID 222829674.