Cabanis's spinetail

Cabanis's spinetail
S. c. subsp. obscurior specimen
specimen underside
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Furnariidae
Genus: Synallaxis
Species: S. cabanisi
Binomial name
Synallaxis cabanisi
Berlepsch & Leverkühn, 1890

The Cabanis's spinetail (Synallaxis cabanisi) is a species of bird in the Furnariidae family. The common name and Latin binomial commemorates the German ornithologist Jean Louis Cabanis.[2]

Range and habitat

It is found in the Andes' eastern slopes and foothills of Bolivia and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.

References

  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Synallaxis cabanisi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  2. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 73–74.


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