Chamaeza Explained

Chamaeza is a genus of South American birds in the family Formicariidae.

The genus was erected by the Irish zoologist Nicholas Aylward Vigors in 1825 with the cryptic antthrush (Chamaeza meruloides) as the type species.^[1]

Species

The genus contains six species:^[2]

Image	Common Name	Scientific name	Distribution
		Chamaeza campanisona	Atlantic Forest in eastern Brazil, eastern Paraguay and northeastern Argentina
		Chamaeza nobilis	Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
		Chamaeza meruloides	southeastern Brazil.
		Chamaeza ruficauda	Atlantic Forest in southeastern Brazil and far northeastern Argentina (only Misiones Province)
		Chamaeza turdina	Andes of Colombia and the Coastal Range in Venezuela.
		Chamaeza mollissima	Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru

Notes and References

1. Vigors . Nicholas Aylward . Nicholas Aylward Vigors . 1825 . Sketches in ornithology; or, observations on the leading affinities of some extensive groups of birds . Zoological Journal . 2 . 368–405 [395] .
2. Web site: Gill . Frank . Frank Gill (ornithologist) . Donsker . David . 2018 . Antthrushes, antpittas, gnateaters, tapaculos, crescentchests . World Bird List Version 8.1 . International Ornithologists' Union . 18 February 2018 .