Sipia | |
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Dull-mantled antbird (Sipia laemosticta) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Thamnophilidae |
Genus: | Sipia Hellmayr, 1924 |
Type species | |
Pyriglena berlepschi Hartert, 1898
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Sipia is a genus of passerine birds in the family Thamnophilidae.
The genus contains four species:[1]
These species were formerly placed in the genus Myrmeciza. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2013 found that Myrmeciza, as then defined, was polyphyletic.[2] In the resulting rearrangement to create monophyletic genera these four species were moved to the resurrected genus Sipia which had been introduced by the Austrian ornithologist Carl Eduard Hellmayr in 1924.[1][3]