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Issue: Vol. 2416 No. 1: 1 Apr. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-04-01
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2416.1.2
Page range: 44–50
Abstract views: 50
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Certhiasomus, a new genus of woodcreeper (Aves: Passeriformes: Dendrocolaptidae)

Museum of Natural Science and Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Museum of Natural Science and Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803
USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, P.O. Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013
Coordenação de Zoologia, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Caixa Postal 399, CEP 66040-170, Belém, Pará, Brazil
Department of Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th St., New York, NY 10024
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity Research Center, Lawrence, KS 66045
Museum of Natural Science and Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Aves Deconychura longicauda Deconychura stictolaema Certhiasomus stictolaemus morphometric heterogeneity phylogeny ranking criteria

Abstract

Phylogenetic analysis of the family Dendrocolaptidae (Aves: Passeriformes) indicates that the two species traditionally placed in the genus Deconychura are not sister taxa. Certhiasomus, a new genus of woodcreeper, is described for one of these species, C. stictolaemus.

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