Typical Antbirds (Thamnophilidae)
Goeldi's Antbird (Myrmeciza goeldii) - HBW 8, p. 663
French: Alapi de Goeldi
German: Goeldiameisenvogel
Spanish: Hormiguero de Goeldi
Taxonomy: Myrmelastes goeldii Snethlage, 1908, Bom Lugar and Porto Alegre, Amazonas, Brazil.
Genus appears not to represent a monophyletic grouping, but traditional arrangement maintained pending further phylogenetic study. Considered closely related to M. melanoceps, having similarities in morphology and voice, but differences in location of hidden white patches and possibly in nest architecture may indicate more distant relationship; they appear to be sympatric in Brazil along upper R Juruá (Acre). Both taxa and M. hyperythra, M. fortis and M. immaculata often thought to form a species group on basis of large size, but more work needed in order to confi.. View all taxonomy...
Genus appears not to represent a monophyletic grouping, but traditional arrangement maintained pending further phylogenetic study. Considered closely related to M. melanoceps, having similarities in morphology and voice, but differences in location of hidden white patches and possibly in nest architecture may indicate more distant relationship; they appear to be sympatric in Brazil along upper R Juruá (Acre). Both taxa and M. hyperythra, M. fortis and M. immaculata often thought to form a species group on basis of large size, but more work needed in order to confirm a close relationship among them. Monotypic.
Distribution: SW Amazonian Brazil (S Acre and adjacent SW Amazonas), SE Peru (S Ucayali, E Cuzco, Madre de Dios) and NW Bolivia (Pando, N La Paz).
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Immature male in hand (brown eyes).
Locality Los Amigos Biological Station (CICRA), Madre de Dios Department, Peru (Monotypic species)
Joe Tobias 29 November 2007 1 year ago 3.7 -
Adult female in hand.
Locality Los Amigos Biological Station (CICRA), Madre de Dios Department, Peru (Monotypic species)
Joe Tobias 29 November 2007 1 year ago 3.7 -
Adult male in hand (red eyes).
Locality Los Amigos Biological Station (CICRA), Madre de Dios Department, Peru (Monotypic species)
Joe Tobias 29 November 2007 1 year ago 3.6 -
Close-up of an adult female in hand.
Locality Los Amigos Biological Station (CICRA), Madre de Dios Department, Peru (Monotypic species)
Joe Tobias 29 November 2007 1 year ago 3.4
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Song. Locality Manu Wildlife Center, Manu Biosphere Reserve, Madre de Dios Department, Peru
(Monotypic species)
Nick Athanas 21 May 2003 2 years ago 4.5
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