Species profile
Unicolored Tapaculo
Scytalopus unicolor
Quick answer
Andes of n Peru (s Cajamarca and La Libertad) and adj. Ecuador
- Scientific name
- Scytalopus unicolor
- Family
- Rhinocryptidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Scytalopus
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
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Related species in Rhinocryptidae
- Ampay Tapaculo (Scytalopus whitneyi)
- Ancash Tapaculo (Scytalopus affinis)
- Ash-colored Tapaculo (Myornis senilis)
- Bahia Tapaculo (Eleoscytalopus psychopompus)
- Black-throated Huet-huet (Pteroptochos tarnii)
- Blackish Tapaculo (Scytalopus latrans)
- Boa Nova Tapaculo (Scytalopus gonzagai)
- Bolivian Tapaculo (Scytalopus bolivianus)