Philydor

Black-capped foliage-gleaner Philydor atricapillus, copyright Aisse Gaertner.

Belongs within: Furnariidae.

Philydor is a genus of relatively slender furnariids bearing a straight bill with the upper mandible more or less hooked apically.

<==Philydor Spix 1824B94
| i. s.: P. erythrocercumJT12
| P. erythropterumJT12
| P. fuscipenne Salvin 1866JT12, Sa66
| P. lichtensteiniAP21
| P. novaesiJT12
| P. ruficaudatumAP21
| P. rufumJT12
| P. rufobrunneus Lawrence 1865Sa66
| P. turdinus [=Anabates turdinus]SS66a
|--P. atricapillusJT12
`--+--Heliobletus contaminatusJT12
`--P. pyrrhodesJT12

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[AP21] Arlott, N., & B. van Perlo. 2021. Collins Birds of the World. William Collins.

[B94] Bock, W. J. 1994. History and nomenclature of avian family-group names. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 222: 1–281.

[JT12] Jetz, W., G. H. Thomas, J. B. Joy, K. Hartmann & A. Ø. Mooers. 2012. The global diversity of birds in space and time. Nature 491: 444–448.

[S66] Salvin, O. 1866. Descriptions of eight new species of birds from Veragua. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1866: 67–76.

[SS66] Sclater, P. L., & O. Salvin. 1866. Catalogue of birds collected by Mr. E. Bartlett on the River Uyacali, Eastern Peru, with notes and descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1866: 175–201.

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