Thrush-like Antpitta

About the Thrush-like Antpitta

The thrush-like antpitta (Myrmothera campanisona) is a species of bird in the antpitta family Grallariidae. It is native to Amazonia. The thrush-like antpitta was described in 1778 by the French polymath Comte de Buffon in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux. Buffon used the French name "Le grand Béfroi". A hand-colored engraving was published separately to accompany Buffon's description. Buffon did not introduce scientific names but 1783 the French naturalist Johann Hermann coined the binomial name Myrmornin campanisonam for Buffon's bird. The specific epithet campanisona combines the Late Latin campana meaning "bell" with the Latin sonus meaning "sounding". The thrush-like antpitta was known under a large number of scientific names before arriving in genus Myrmothera that was introduced in 1816 by Louis Pierre Vieillot.

The thrush-like antpitta has these five subspecies: M. c. modesta (Sclater, PL, 1855) M. c. dissors Zimmer, JT, 1934 M. c. campanisona (Hermann, 1783) M. c. signata Zimmer, JT, 1934 M. c. minor (Taczanowski, 1882) What is now the Tapajos antpitta (M. subcanescens) was previously treated as a sixth subspecies. Beginning in 2018 taxonomic... Wikipedia →