What is now the rufous antpitta complex was long considered to be a single species, Grallaria rufula, with seven subspecies. In 2020 G. rufula was found to be a species complex of 16 species, some of which were newly described.[1] In 2021 the International Ornithological Committee and the Clements taxonomy implemented the split of the rufous antpitta into multiple species and accepted the newly described species. The revised Grallaria rufula sensu stricto, now called the Muisca antpitta, has no subspecies and is thus monotypic according to those taxonomies.[2][3] However, BirdLife International's Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW) did not fully implement the split. It retains the name rufous antpitta for Grallaria rufula and retains six of the seven previous subspecies within it. It had split only the former G. r. saltuensis as the Perija antpitta in 2018.[4][5]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Grallariidae |
| Genus: | Grallaria |
| Species complex: | Grallaria rufula complex |
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The members of the complex are listed below. They include the former subspecies of the rufous antpitta, the newly described species, and two previously known species newly recognized as part of the complex.[2]
- Sierra Nevada antpitta Grallaria spatiator
- Perija antpitta, Grallaria saltuensis
- Muisca antpitta, Grallaria rufula sensu stricto
- Bicolored antpitta, Grallaria rufocinerea
- Chami antpitta Grallaria alvarezi
- Equatorial antpitta Grallaria saturata
- Cajamarca antpitta Grallaria cajamarcae
- Chestnut antpitta Grallaria blakei
- Chachapoyas antpitta Grallaria gravesi
- Panao antpitta Grallaria oneilli
- Junin antpitta Grallaria obscura
- Oxapampa antpitta Grallaria centralis
- Ayacucho antpitta Grallaria ayacuchensis
- Urubamba antpitta Grallaria occabambae
- Puno antpitta Grallaria sinaensis
- Bolivian antpitta Grallaria cochabambae
References
edit- ^ Isler, Morton L.; Chesser, R. Terry; Robbins, Mark B.; Cuervo, Andrés M.; Cadena, Carlos Daniel & Hosner, Peter A. (21 July 2020). "Taxonomic evaluation of the Grallaria rufula (Rufous Antpitta) complex (Aves: Passeriformes: Grallariidae) distinguishes sixteen species". Zootaxa. 4817 (1): zootaxa.4817.1.1. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4817.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 33055681. S2CID 222829674.
- ^ a b Gill, F, D Donsker, and P Rasmussen (Eds). 2021. IOC World Bird List (v 11.2). Doi 10.14344/IOC.ML.11.2. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/
- ^ Clements, T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2021. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2021. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- ^ HBW and BirdLife International (2024). Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife International digital checklist of the birds of the world. Version 8.1. Available at: https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/taxonomy retrieved 26 August 2024
- ^ HBW and BirdLife International (2018) Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife International digital checklist of the birds of the world. Version 3. Available at: http://datazone.birdlife.org/userfiles/file/Species/Taxonomy/HBW-BirdLife_Checklist_v3_Nov18.zip retrieved 10 November 2023
- Sounds of many Grallaria rufula taxa on www.xeno-canto.org.
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