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  MavicaNET - Gnateaters & antpipits (Conopophagidae)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Каталог / Природа / Життя / Тварини / Птахи (Aves) / Горобцеподібні (Passeriformes) / Gnateaters and antpipits (Conopophagidae)
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The Gnateaters are plump, short-tailed, and long-legged bird of tangled forest undergrowth in South America.
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 Morphology of the Bony Stapes in New and Old World Suboscines: New Evidence for Common Ancestry
In this condition the shaft is similar to the primitive condition, but is necessarily shortened by the expansion of the footplate.
The similarity of the stapes in the Old World Eurylaimidae and Pittidae, and the Nexv World Furnariidae, Dendrocolaptidae, Formicariidae, Conopophagidae, Rhinocryptidae, Cotingidae, Pipridae, Tyrannidae, and Phytotomidae is strong evidence for a common origin of these Nexv and Old World groups.
A study of the morphology of the stapes in all birds is currently being prepared for publication in monograph form.
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 Conopophagidae --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Research in the late 1960s, however, led to its dissolution; the Conopophaga were then returned to the Formicariidae, and the Corythopsis were assigned to…
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The name antpipit is sometimes improperly applied to the gnateaters (Conopophaga), who were formerly classified with antpipits in the family Conopophagidae; Corythopis is now usually classified with the tyrant flycatchers in the family Tyrannidae...
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 BioMed Central | Full text | Phylogenetic relationships of typical antbirds (Thamnophilidae) and test of incongruence ...
The highest diversity of typical antbirds is found in the Amazonian basin, and differences in ecological specializations make it possible to find as many as 40 species in the same area [3].
DNA sequence data [1,8] suggests that gnateaters (Conopophagidae) forms the sister clade to typical antbirds, while antpittas and antthrushes are more closely related to tapaculos (Rhinocryptidae), woodcreepers and ovenbirds (Furnariidae).
Even though the monophyly of typical antbirds seems to be well supported by both syrinx morphology [6] and molecular data [1,7] the phylogenetic relationships within this assemblage are poorly understood, and the confusion extending to all taxonomic levels.
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 Auk, The: Phylogenetic analysis of the nest architecture of neotropical ovenbirds (Furnariidae)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
We assumed that the Furnariidae and the Dendrocolaptidae are each monophyletic and are sister taxa, based on the Sibley and Ahlquist (1990) DNA-DNA hybridization hypothesis.
The hypothesized sister group to the Furnariidae + Dendrocolaptidae is a clade composed of the Formicariidae, Conopophagidae, and Rhinocryptidae (i.e.
Sample sizes varied considerably, with approximately 5% of the species represented by more than 50 nests each, the majority of species based on more than 10 nests, and about 20% of the species known from a single nest description.
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 The Number of Species of Birds, by Ernst Mayr
This involved the complete revision of many families, the results of which have been published only in part.
Nichols had the kindness to count for me the species in the following American families: Dendrocolaptidae, Furnariidae, Formicariidae, Conopophagidae, Rhinocryptidae, Cotingidae, Pipridae, Tyrannidae, Oxyruncidae, and Phytotomidae.
The principal difficulty one has to face during a count of the species of birds in the world is to decide, in the case of the many borderline forms, whether to consider them species or subspecies.
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 Bird families   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Loose-plumaged, tail usually short, bill often hooked and swollen.
56 species, 7 genera, excluding Conopophagidae and Thamnophilidae.
Small, long-legged birds with short rounded wings, brown and gray plumage, white ear patch; palate schizognathous, 4-notched sternum.
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 Definition of conopophagidae - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
conopophagidae is one of more than 1,000,000 entries available at Merriam-WebsterUnabridged.com.
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 Tapaculo family
Nice vignettes of various elusive Brazilian species are in Sick (1993).
Recent biochemical evidence (summarized in Sibley and Ahlquist (990) indicates that the tapaculos are a distinct family whose closest relatives are the gnateaters (Conopophagidae) and the ground antbirds (Formicariidae).
Older theories suggesting relationships with the lyre-birds or scrub-birds of Australia have not been confirmed by genetics (see Ridgely and Tudor 1994).
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