Melanopareia
Sign in to saveThe crescentchests are a genus, Melanopareia, of suboscine passerine birds from South America. The genus has long been placed with the tapaculos in the family Rhinocryptidae. Their placement there has been questioned and in 2007 the genus was placed in its own family, Melanopareiidae, by the South American Classification Committee. Subsequently, the family was accepted by the International Ornithological Congress Bird List and the Clements Checklist. The family Melanopareiidae was formally erected in 2009.
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderPasseriformes
- FamilyMelanopareiidae
Оливковошапочный кустарниковый топаколо, работа Альсида Дессалина д’Орбиньи, 1847 Кустарниковые топаколо обитают в пустынных кустарниках. Как правило, птицы питаются на земле, однако нет каких-либо сообщений об их рационе. Ожерелковый и оливковошапочный кустарниковые топаколо широко распространена в центральной и южной Бразилии, Боливии, Парагвае и северной Аргентине, в то время как украшенный и длиннохвостый виды имеют ограниченный ареал в Перу и Эквадоре.
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The crescentchests are a genus, Melanopareia, of suboscine passerine birds from South America. The genus has long been placed with the tapaculos in the family Rhinocryptidae. Their placement there has been questioned and in 2007 the genus was placed in its own family, Melanopareiidae, by the South American Classification Committee. Subsequently, the family was accepted by the International Ornithological Congress Bird List and the Clements Checklist. The family Melanopareiidae was formally erected in 2009.
==Taxonomy== The genus Melanopareia was introduced in 1853 by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach. He listed two species in the genus but did not specify the type; in 1855 the English zoologist George Gray selected Synallaxis maximiliani D'Orbigny, (olive-crowned crescentchest) as the type species. The genus name combines the Ancient Greek μελας/melas, μελανος/melanos meaning "black" with παρηιον/parēion meaning "cheek".
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