Species profile
Inambari Gnatcatcher
Polioptila attenboroughi
Quick answer
Holotype. - Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi (MPEG) 63204, skin, adult male; skull 100 % ossified; no Bursa of Fabricius; left testis 4 x 3 mm; 6 g; little fat and no molt. Collected (shot) and tape-recorded in a mixed-species canopy flock of insectivores in upland (terra-firme) sandy-soil forest by AW on 5 July 2007 at Tupana Lodge, located at km 158 of the BR- 319 road in the municipality of Careiro, Amazonas, Brazil (04 ° 05 ' 00.2 " S; 60 ° 39 ' 37.8 " W); prepared by AA and Manoel Santa-Brigida under field number TUP 010. Pectoral muscle tissue preserved in approximately 96 % alcohol; field number TUP 010. Hologenetype (Chakrabarty 2010) sequences of the mitochondrial gene NADH subunit 2 (1041 bp) deposited in GenBank (accession number KC 823272). Tape-recordings of vocalizations archived at the British Library of Maturai Sounds under accession number 183249 (available at http: // www. bl. uk / listentonature / main. html).
- Scientific name
- Polioptila attenboroughi
- Family
- Polioptilidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Polioptila
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Related species in Polioptilidae
- Black-capped Gnatcatcher (Polioptila nigriceps)
- Black-tailed Gnatcatcher (Polioptila melanura)
- Blue-grey Gnatcatcher (Polioptila caerulea)
- California Gnatcatcher (Polioptila californica)
- Chattering Gnatwren (Ramphocaenus sticturus)
- Collared Gnatwren (Microbates collaris)
- Creamy-bellied Gnatcatcher (Polioptila lactea)
- Cuban Gnatcatcher (Polioptila lembeyei)