Cordillera Azul Antbird

Cordillera Azul Antbird

Cordillera Azul Antbird

Here the details of the Cordillera Azul Antbird named bird below:

SCI Name:  Myrmoderus eowilsoni
Protonym:  Myrmoderus eowilsoni Auk 135(1) 114-126
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Thamnophilidae /
Taxonomy Code:  whiant1
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Publish Year:  2018
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DEFINITIONS

MYRMODERUS
(Thamnophilidae; Ϯ White-bibbed Antbird M. loricatus) Gr. μυρμος murmos  ant; δερω derō  to thrash, to cudgel; "Myrmoderus gen. nov.  (Formicariidæ.)   Related to Myrmeciza Gray but tail much longer (more than five-sixths as long, sometimes longer than, wing, bill more slender, nostril larger and more longitudinal, and forehead more densely feathered, with feathers more compactly webbed, more decumbent; style of coloration very different.   Type.— Myiothera loricata Lichtenstein.  (Mυρμηξ, an ant; δερω, I flay, cudgel.)" (Ridgway 1909).
Synon. Myrmedestes.

eowilsoni
Prof. Edward Osborne Wilson (b. 1929) US sociobiologist, myrmecologist, conservationist, Pulitzer Prize winner 1979, 1991 (Myrmoderus).