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Upucerthia
Sign in to saveUpucerthia is a genus of bird in the family Furnariidae.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Upucerthia is referenced by 466 other articles, and connects out to Maluridae, Furnariidae and bird.
It sits within the topics Taxonomy articles created by Polbot and Upucerthia.
Its subject is documented across 20 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderPasseriformes
- FamilyFurnariidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 20
- With media
- 3
- Family
- Furnariidae
- Collections
- LSUMZ, CLO, NHMUK, BOUM
- Recorded in
- Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Furnariidae
- Image
- Upercerthia dumetaria.jpg
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- Category:Upucerthia
- Commons category
- Upucerthia
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon name
- Upucerthia
- taxon common name
- Kapuajat
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Taxonomy and etymology
- List of species
- References
- Notes
- Sources
Upucerthia is a genus of bird in the family Furnariidae.
==Taxonomy and etymology== Upucerthia is a genus of bird in the family Furnariidae. Established by French zoologist Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire in 1832, it contains four species known as earthcreepers. Genetic studies done in the early 2000s indicated that the genus as it stood at that time was highly polyphyletic, with species representing four distinct clades. As a result, a total of five former species were moved to other genera. The rock earthcreeper and the straight-billed earthcreeper were moved to the genus Ochetorhynchus. The Bolivian earthcreeper and the Chaco earthcreeper were moved to the genus Tarphonomus, and the striated earthcreeper was moved into the monotypic genus Geocerthia.
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