Dendrocincla

{{Short description|Genus of birds}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Dendrocincla fuliginosa -NW Ecuador-8.jpg

| image_caption = Plain-brown woodcreeper, (Dendrocincla fuliginosa)

| taxon = Dendrocincla

| authority = G.R. Gray, 1840

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 6, see text

| type_species =Dendrocolaptes turdina{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=113 |title= Dendrocolaptidae |author= |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-07-16}}

| type_species_authority = Lichtenstein, 1820

}}

Dendrocincla is a genus of bird in the woodcreeper subfamily Dendrocolaptinae.

Taxonomy and systematics

=Extant species=

The genus contains six species:{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | year=2019 | title=Ovenbirds, woodcreepers | work=World Bird List Version 9.1 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/ovenbirds/| publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | accessdate=22 January 2019 }}

class="wikitable"
ImageScientific nameCommon NameDistribution
130pxDendrocincla tyranninaTyrannine woodcreeperBolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.
130pxDendrocincla fuliginosaPlain-brown woodcreeperHonduras through South America to northern Argentina, and in Trinidad and Tobago.
130pxDendrocincla turdinaPlain-winged woodcreepereastern Brazil from Rio Grande do Sul north to Bahia, north-east Argentina (Misiones Province) and eastern Paraguay.
130pxDendrocincla anabatinaTawny-winged woodcreeperBelize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama.
130pxDendrocincla merulaWhite-chinned woodcreeperBolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.
130pxDendrocincla homochroaRuddy woodcreepersouthern Mexico to northern Colombia and extreme northern Venezuela.

=Former species=

Formerly, some authorities also considered the following species (or subspecies) as species within the genus Dendrocincla:

  • Sangihe whistler (as Dendrocincla macrorhyncha){{Cite web|url=http://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/species.jsp?avibaseid=9A7D5255A43E0AC7|title=Coracornis sanghirensis - Avibase|website=avibase.bsc-eoc.org|access-date=2017-01-29}}

References

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