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Upucerthia

{{Short description|Genus of birds}}

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| image = Scale-throated earthcreeper.jpg

| image_caption = Scale-throated earthcreeper (Upucerthia dumetaria)

| taxon = Upucerthia

| authority = I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1832

| type_species = Upucerthia dumetaria{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=112 |title= Funariidae |author= |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-07-16}}

| type_species_authority = Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1832

}}

Upucerthia is a genus of bird in the family Furnariidae.

Taxonomy and etymology

Upucerthia is a genus of bird in the family Furnariidae. Established by French zoologist Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire in 1832, it contains four species known as earthcreepers.{{sfn|Gill|Donsker|Rasmussen|2021}} Genetic studies done in the early 2000s indicated that the genus as it stood at that time was highly polyphyletic, with species representing four distinct clades.{{sfn|Chesser|Barker|Brumfield|2007|p=1320}} As a result, a total of five former species were moved to other genera. The rock earthcreeper and the straight-billed earthcreeper were moved to the genus Ochetorhynchus.{{sfn|Gill|Donsker|Rasmussen|2021}}{{sfn|Chesser|Barker|Brumfield|2007|p=1320}}{{sfn|SACC|2007a}} The Bolivian earthcreeper and the Chaco earthcreeper were moved to the genus Tarphonomus,{{sfn|Gill|Donsker|Rasmussen|2021}}{{sfn|Chesser|Barker|Brumfield|2007|p=1320}}{{sfn|SACC|2007b}} and the striated earthcreeper was moved into the monotypic genus Geocerthia.{{sfn|Gill|Donsker|Rasmussen|2021}}{{sfn|Chesser|Barker|Brumfield|2007|p=1320}}

The genus name is a portmanteau of the genus names Upupa (for the hoopoes) and Certhia (for the treecreepers).{{sfn|Jobling|2010|p=396}}

List of species

The following are species recognized by the International Ornithologists' Union as being members of this genus.{{sfn|Gill|Donsker|Rasmussen|2021}}

The Patagonian forest earthcreeper, described as a distinct species in 1900 but soon lumped as a subspecies of the scale-throated earthcreeper, was designated as a distinct species again in the early 2000s. This determination was based on differences in its morphology, song, breeding habitat, and migration patterns.{{sfn|Areta|Pearman|2009|p=135}}

References

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  • {{cite journal|last1=Areta|first1=Juan|first2=Mark |last2=Pearman |year=2009|title=Natural History, Morphology, Evolution, and Taxonomic Status of the Earthcreeper Upucerthia saturatior (Furnariidae) from the Patagonian Forests of South America|journal=The Condor|volume=111|issue=1|pages=135–149| doi = 10.1525/cond.2009.080009|s2cid=86727134}}
  • {{cite journal |last1=Chesser |first1=R. Terry |first2=F. Keith |last2=Barker |first3=Robb T. |last3=Brumfield |name-list-style=amp |title=Fourfold polyphyly of the genus formerly known as Upucerthia, with notes on the systematics and evolution of the avian subfamily Furnariinae |journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution |volume=44 |issue=3 |date=September 2007 |pages=1320–1332 |doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2007.04.014|pmid=17632018 |bibcode=2007MolPE..44.1320C }}
  • {{cite web |editor1-last=Gill |editor1-first=Frank |editor2-last=Donsker |editor2-first=David |editor3-last=Rasmussen |editor3-first=Pamela |name-list-style=amp |year=2021 |title=Ovenbirds, woodcreepers |work=IOC World Bird List |publisher=International Ornithologists' Union |url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/new/bow/ovenbirds/ |access-date=17 March 2021}}
  • {{cite book |first=James A. |last=Jobling |title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names |year=2010 |location=London, UK |publisher=Christopher Helm |url=https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling |isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4}}
  • {{cite web |author=SACC |author-link=South American Classification Committee |year=2007a |url=http://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCprop324.html |title=Proposal (#324) to South American Classification Committee: Reinstate Ochetorhynchus and merge Chilia and Eremobius into it. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516004126/http://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCprop324.html |access-date=28 October 2008|archive-date=2008-05-16 }}
  • {{cite web |author=SACC |author-link=South American Classification Committee |year=2007b |url=http://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCprop323.html |title=Proposal (#323) to South American Classification Committee: Recognize the genus Tarphonomus for two "Upucerthia" |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516004738/http://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCprop323.html |access-date=28 October 2008|archive-date=2008-05-16 }}

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