''Sipia'' is a
genus of
passerine birds in the family
Thamnophilidae.
The genus contains four species:
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Dull-mantled antbird (''Sipia laemosticta'')
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Magdalena antbird (''Sipia palliata'')
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Esmeraldas antbird
The Esmeraldas antbird (''Sipia nigricauda'') is a species of bird in the family Thamnophilidae. It is found in Colombia and Ecuador. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist m ...
(''Sipia nigricauda'')
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Stub-tailed antbird (''Sipia berlepschi'')
These species were formerly placed in the genus ''
Myrmeciza
The white-bellied antbird (''Myrmeciza longipes''), is a passerine bird which breeds in the tropical New World from Panama to northern Brazil and in Trinidad
Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands of Trinidad an ...
''. A
molecular phylogenetic
Molecular phylogenetics () is the branch of phylogeny that analyzes genetic, hereditary molecular differences, predominantly in DNA sequences, to gain information on an organism's evolutionary relationships. From these analyses, it is possible to ...
study published in 2013 found that ''Myrmeciza'', as then defined, was
polyphyletic. In the resulting rearrangement to create
monophyletic
In cladistics for a group of organisms, monophyly is the condition of being a clade—that is, a group of taxa composed only of a common ancestor (or more precisely an ancestral population) and all of its lineal descendants. Monophyletic gro ...
genera these four species were moved to the resurrected genus ''Sipia'' which had been introduced by the Austrian ornithologist
Carl Eduard Hellmayr in 1924.
References
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