Lepidocolaptes cf. squamatus (Scaled Woodcreeper)

Vasconcelos, Marcelo Ferreira de, 2018, First avifaunal survey of a Cerrado dry forest enclave on the right bank of the São Francisco River, Minas Gerais, Brazil, with insights on geographic variation of some species, Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 58, pp. 1-18 : 6

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https://doi.org/ 10.11606/1807-0205/2018.58.15

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scientific name

Lepidocolaptes cf. squamatus (Scaled Woodcreeper)
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Lepidocolaptes cf. squamatus (Scaled Woodcreeper) View in CoL

This species was frequent during our survey (IFL=19.5%),occurring mainly in dry forest and its borders. We collected two specimens (MCNA 4978, MCNA 5237). Both exhibit plumage of crown as assigned for L.squamatus (following Silva & Straube, 1996). Nevertheless, their underparts are more similar to that of L. wagleri , showing inconspicuous dark borders on the streaks of breast and belly ( Fig. 6 View Figure 6 ). Other specimens also present intermediate plumage between L. wagleri and L. squamatus ( Silva & Straube, 1996; Vasconcelos et al., 2012; see also Appendix 1). Thus, it is worthy that a detailed revision coupling molecular and morphological data is conduct- ed within this complex in order to understand a possible intergradation zone between the two taxa.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Furnariidae

Genus

Lepidocolaptes

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