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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Craniata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Classis: Reptilia
Cladus: Eureptilia
Cladus: Romeriida
Subclassis: Diapsida
Cladus: Sauria
Infraclassis: Archosauromorpha
Cladus: Crurotarsi
Divisio: Archosauria
Subsectio: Ornithodira
Subtaxon: Dinosauromorpha
Cladus: Dinosauria
Ordo: Saurischia
Cladus: Eusaurischia
Cladus: Theropoda
Cladus: Neotheropoda
Infraclassis: Aves
Ordo: Passeriformes
Subordo: Tyranni
Infraordo: Tyrannides
Parvordo: Furnariida
Superfamilia: Formicaroidea

Familia: Formicariidae
Genus: Chamaeza
Species: C. campanisona – C. meruloides – C. mollissima – C. nobilis – C. ruficauda – C. turdina
Name

Chamaeza Vigors, 1825

Typus: Myiothera campanisona Lichtenstein, 1823 = Chamaeza campanisona

Synonyms

Chamaezosa Cabanis, 1847 Arch.Naturgesch p. 218
Chamaezusa Burmeister, 1850 (emend.)
Chemaeza Lesson, 1839 (emend.) Rev.Zool. p. 136
Chamoeza Reichenbach, 1850 (emend.) Av.Syst.Nat. pl.LII

References

Vigors, N.A. 1825. Sketches in ornithology; or, observations on the leading affinities of some of the more extensive groups of birds. On the arrangements of the genera of Birds. The Zoological Journal Vol.2: From January 1825 to April 1826: 391–405. Original description: p. 395 BHL Reference page.

Vernacular names
English: Antthrush
español: Tovacáes
português: Tovacas

Chamaeza is a genus of South American birds in the family Formicariidae.

The genus was erected by the Irish zoologist Nicholas Aylward Vigors in 1825 with the cryptic antthrush (Chamaeza meruloides) as the type species.[1]
Species

The genus contains six species:[2]

Image Common Name Scientific name Distribution
Chamaeza campanisona - Short-tailed anttrush.jpg Short-tailed antthrush Chamaeza campanisona Atlantic Forest in eastern Brazil, eastern Paraguay and northeastern Argentina
Chamaeza nobilis.jpg Striated antthrush Chamaeza nobilis Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
Chamaeza meruloides - Such's Anttrush; Iporanga, São Paulo, Brazil.jpg Cryptic antthrush Chamaeza meruloides southeastern Brazil.
Chamaeza ruficauda - Rufous-tailed anttrush.jpg Rufous-tailed antthrush Chamaeza ruficauda Atlantic Forest in southeastern Brazil and far northeastern Argentina (only Misiones Province)
Schwartz's antthrush Chamaeza turdina Andes of Colombia and the Coastal Range in Venezuela.
Barred antthrush Chamaeza mollissima Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru

References

Vigors, Nicholas Aylward (1825). "Sketches in ornithology; or, observations on the leading affinities of some extensive groups of birds". Zoological Journal. 2: 368–405 [395].
Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Antthrushes, antpittas, gnateaters, tapaculos, crescentchests". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 18 February 2018.

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