The cinnamon-throated woodcreeper (''Dendrexetastes rufigula'') is a species of bird in the Dendrocolaptinae

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of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is the only species placed in the genus ''Dendrexetastes''. It is found in

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, Brazil,

Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...

, Ecuador, French Guiana,

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, Peru,

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, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical

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The cinnamon-throated woodcreeper is genetically most closely related to the

long-billed woodcreeper The long-billed woodcreeper (''Nasica longirostris'') is a species of bird in the subfamily Dendrocolaptinae of the woodcreepers. It is the only species in the monotypic genus ''Nasica''. Distribution and habitat It is found in the Amazon Bas ...

(''Nasica longirostris''). A high resolution version of the phylogenetic tree in Figure 1 is available from the first author's websit
here
Four

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are recognised. * ''D. r. devillei'' ( Lafresnaye, 1850) – west Amazonia * ''D. r. rufigula'' ( Lesson, RP, 1844) – east Venezuela, the Guianas and north Brazil * ''D. r. moniliger'' Zimmer, JT, 1934 – central west Brazil * ''D. r. paraensis'' Lorenz von Liburnau, L, 1895 – northeast Brazil south of the Amazon

References

cinnamon-throated woodcreeper Birds of the Amazon Basin Birds of the Bolivian Amazon Birds of the Ecuadorian Amazon Birds of the Peruvian Amazon Birds of the Guianas cinnamon-throated woodcreeper Birds of Brazil Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Furnariidae-stub