The northern plain xenops (Xenops mexicanus) is a passerine bird in the Furnariinae subfamily of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is found from southern Mexico through Panama to northern Colombia, northwest Venezuela and western Ecuador. It was formerly considered as conspecific with the Amazonian plain xenops.
| Northern plain xenops | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Furnariidae |
| Genus: | Xenops |
| Species: | X. mexicanus
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| Binomial name | |
| Xenops mexicanus Sclater, 1857
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Taxonomy
editThe northern plain xenops was formally described in 1857 by the English zoologist Philip Sclater based on specimens collected near Córdoba in southern Mexico by Auguste Sallé. Sclater coined the binomial name Xenops mexicanus.[1][2] The northern plain xenops is now one of five species placed in the genus Xenops that was introduced in 1811 by Johann Illiger. It was formerly considered as conspecific with the Amazonian plain xenops. The two species were split based on differences in plumage, vocalizations and DNA sequence.[3][4]
Five subspecies are recognised:[3]
- X. m. mexicanus Sclater, PL, 1857 – south Mexico to Honduras
- X. m. ridgwayi Hartert, EJO & Goodson, 1917 – Nicaragua to central Panama
- X. m. littoralis Sclater, PL, 1862 – east Panama and north Colombia to west Colombia, west Ecuador and northwest Peru
- X. m. olivaceus Aveledo & Pons, 1952 – northeast Colombia
- X. m. neglectus Todd, 1913 – northeast Colombia and north Venezuela
References
edit- ^ Sclater, Philip Lutley (1856). "A catalogue of the birds collected by M. Auguste Sallé in southern Mexico, with the description of new species". Proceedings of the Transactions of the Zoological of London. 24 (published 1857): 283–311 [289].
- ^ Peters, James Lee, ed. (1951). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 7. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 145.
- ^ a b Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2024). "Ovenbirds, woodcreepers". IOC World Bird List Version 14.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
- ^ Harvey, M.G.; et al. (2020). "The evolution of a tropical biodiversity hotspot". Science. 370 (6522): 1343–1348. doi:10.1126/science.aaz6970. A high resolution version of the phylogenetic tree in Figure 1 is available from the first author's website here.