Species profile
Rufescent Antshrike
Thamnistes rufescens
Quick answer
Type series: Cabanis (1873 a: 65) based this species on an unspecified number of specimens, which included at least a male and a female. Taczanowski (1875: 530) listed only a single specimen of each sex. The type series of Thamnistes rufescens Cabanis thus consisted of two syntypes, both of which were deposited in the MIZ (Taczanowski 1889: 20) and were destroyed in the 1920 s (cf. Sztolcman & Domaniewski 1927: 120 – 121; see Mlíkovský 2009 b for details). Syntype (lost): MIZ unnumbered (N. 7152), 3, collected by Jelski on an unknown date [= October 1871 to February 1872] at " Amable-Maria " [= Amable María, Peru].
- Scientific name
- Thamnistes rufescens
- Family
- Thamnophilidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Thamnistes
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