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Margarornis is a genus of passerine birds in the ovenbird family Furnariidae. They are found in South and Middle America. All four species in the genus have "treerunner" in their English name.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassAves
  4. OrderPasseriformes
  5. FamilyFurnariidae
Observations recorded83,470

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
51
Family
Furnariidae
Collections
CMNH, CUMV, WFVZ, ROM
Recorded in
Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Panama

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Furnariidae
Image
Margarornis squamiger -NBII Image Gallery-a00214.jpg
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Commons category
Margarornis
taxon rank
genus
taxon name
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topic's main category
Category:Margarornis
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Encyclopedic overview

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Margarornis is a genus of passerine birds in the ovenbird family Furnariidae. They are found in South and Middle America. All four species in the genus have "treerunner" in their English name.

==Taxonomy== The genus Margarornis was introduced in 1853 by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach. The name combines the Ancient Greek margaron meaning "pearl" with ornis meaning "bird". The type species was designated by George Robert Gray in 1855 as Sittasomus perlatus Lesson. This taxon is now considered to be a subspecies of the pearled treerunner (Margarornis squamiger perlatus).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Margarornis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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