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Genus of birds From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Akletos is a genus of passerine birds in the family Thamnophilidae.
Akletos | |
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Goeldi's antbird (Akletos goeldii) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Thamnophilidae |
Genus: | Akletos Dunajewski, 1948 |
Type species | |
Akletos peruvianus[1] Dunajewski, 1948 |
The genus contains two species:[2]
The two species were formerly placed in the genus Myrmeciza. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2013 found that Myrmeciza, as then defined, was polyphyletic.[3] In the resulting rearrangement to create monophyletic genera these species were moved to the resurrected genus Akletos which had been introduced by the Polish ornithologist Andrzej Dunajewski in 1948.[2][4][5]
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