Mouse-Coloured Tapaculo
Scytalopus speluncae(Ménétries, É, 1835)
English (US) Mouse-colored Tapaculo
UK name: Mouse-Coloured Tapaculo
The Mouse-Coloured Tapaculo (Scytalopus speluncae) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Rhinocryptidae (Tapaculos) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: southeastern Brazil (southwestern EspĂrito Santo to northern Rio Grande do Sul)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Scytalopus speluncae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Mouse-colored Tapaculo
- English (UK)
- Mouse-Coloured Tapaculo
- Described by
- (Ménétries, É, 1835)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Malacorhynchus speluncae
- Described by
- (Ménétries, É, 1835)
- Type locality
- Sao Joao del Rei, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
- Original description
- Mémoires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg (6), 1 p.527 pl.13 fig.1
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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