Title
A new species of antbird (Passeriformes: Thamnophilidae) from the Cordillera Azul, San Martín, Peru
Date Issued
01 January 2018
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
American Ornithological Society
Abstract
We describe a distinctive new species of antbird (Passeriformes: Thamnophilidae) from humid montane forest (1,340-1,670 m above sea level) of the Cordillera Azul, San Martín Region, Peru. Plumage, voice, and molecular evidence distinguish this species from its sister taxon Myrmoderus ferrugineus (Ferruginous-backed Antbird), which is found in lowland Amazonian rainforests of the Guiana Shield and Madeira-Tapajós interfluvium. The new species is presently known only from one ridge in the Cordillera Azul, and therefore we recommend further fieldwork to better estimate its distribution and population size.
Start page
114
End page
126
Volume
135
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Zoología, Ornitología, Entomología, ciencias biológicas del comportamiento
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85038422818
Source
Auk
ISSN of the container
00048038
Sponsor(s)
We thank K. Garrett at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County; B. Marks at the Field Museum of Natural History; G. Graves, C. Milensky, and J. Saucier at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution; and M. Robbins at the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute for access to or loans from their respective collections. CORBIDI provided essential logistical support at various stages of this project. We are indebted to our guides and field assistants, E. Vallejos, E. Bautista Obispo, and W. Vargas, for their tireless work and pleasant company. We thank T. Mark for information on his pioneering surveys in the Cordillera Azul. A. Spencer and G. Macedo kindly shared audio recordings. B. Whitney shared audio recordings and information on the natural history of related species. The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology generously provided use of audio recording equipment. Funding statement: Fieldwork was conducted thanks to a grant to the Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Tropical Bird Research Fund. A.E.M. and O.J. are supported by National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships under grant no. DGE-1247192. Any opinion, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. No funding source had any influence on the content of the submitted or published manuscript, nor required approval of the final manuscript before publication. Ethics statement: Specimen collecting and export permits were provided by the Servicio Nacional Forestal y de Fauna Silvestre (SERFOR) under the following permits: Resolución no. 203-2015 SERFOR-DGGSPFFS, Resolución no. 222-2015 SERFOR-DGGSPFFS, Permiso no. 003104 SERFOR, and Permiso no. 003105 SERFOR. All specimen collection was done under Louisiana State University’s Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee protocol no. 15-036. Author contributions: J.R.B. made the initial discovery. A.E.M., O.J., D.F.L., J.R.B., F.A., and J.F. collected data. A.E.M., O.J., and D.F.L. collected and prepared specimens and analyzed the data. A.E.M. and O.J. wrote the paper. Data deposits: All genetic data are deposited in GenBank (see Appendix Table 3 for accession numbers). Sequences alignments and phylogenetic trees are available at TreeBASE (http://purl.org/phylo/treebase/phylows/study/TB2:S21548). Nomenclature review: The nomenclature in this paper has been reviewed by the Working Group on Avian Nomenclature of the International Ornithologists’ Union.
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