Grallaria
Genus of birds
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Grallaria is a large genus of Neotropical birds in the antpitta family Grallariidae.
| Grallaria | |
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| Chestnut-crowned antpitta (Grallaria ruficapilla) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Grallariidae |
| Genus: | Grallaria Vieillot, 1816 |
| Type species | |
| Formicarius varius[1] Boddaert, 1783 | |
| Species | |
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47, see text. | |
Taxonomy
The genus was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816 with the variegated antpitta (Grallaria varia) as the type species.[2][3] The genus name is from Neo-Latin grallarius meaning "stilt-walker".[4]
Species
The genus contains the following 47 species[5][6]
| Image | Common name | Scientific name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Undulated antpitta | Grallaria squamigera | northern Andes |
_(25452478097).jpg) | Giant antpitta | Grallaria gigantea | northern Andes of Colombia and Ecuador |
| - | Great antpitta | Grallaria excelsa | mountains of northwestern Venezuela |
 | Variegated antpitta | Grallaria varia | Amazonia and Atlantic Forest |
.jpg) | Scaled antpitta | Grallaria guatimalensis | Central America and northwestern South America |
.jpg) | Moustached antpitta | Grallaria alleni | northern Andes of Colombia and Ecuador |
| - | Tachira antpitta | Grallaria chthonia | Venezuelan Andes montane forests |
 | Plain-backed antpitta | Grallaria haplonota | northern Andes and Venezuelan Coastal Range |
 | Ochre-striped antpitta | Grallaria dignissima | north of the Marañón River |
| - | Elusive antpitta | Grallaria eludens | western Amazonia |
 | Santa Marta antpitta | Grallaria bangsi | Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta |
_Caldas.jpg) | Chestnut-crowned antpitta | Grallaria ruficapilla | northern Andes |
 | Cundinamarca antpitta | Grallaria kaestneri | Cordillera Oriental (Colombia) |
.jpg) | Watkins's antpitta | Grallaria watkinsi | Tumbes |
 | Stripe-headed antpitta | Grallaria andicolus | Peruvian Andes |
_Las_Tangaras_2.jpg) | Chestnut-naped antpitta | Grallaria nuchalis | northern Andes of Colombia and Ecuador |
 | Jocotoco antpitta | Grallaria ridgelyi | Chinchipe River and Cordillera del Cóndor |
 | Pale-billed antpitta | Grallaria carrikeri | Andes of northern Peru |
.jpg) | Yellow-breasted antpitta | Grallaria flavotincta | northern Andes of Colombia and Ecuador |
 | White-bellied antpitta | Grallaria hypoleuca | northern Andes |
 | Rusty-tinged antpitta | Grallaria przewalskii | Andes of northern Peru |
 | Bay antpitta | Grallaria capitalis | Andes of central Peru |
 | Red-and-white antpitta | Grallaria erythroleuca | Andes of southern Peru |
 | White-throated antpitta | Grallaria albigula | Yungas and southern Andean Yungas |
| - | Grey-naped antpitta | Grallaria griseonucha | Venezuelan Andes montane forests |
.jpg) | Perija antpitta | Grallaria saltuensis | Serranía del Perijá |
.jpg) | Sierra Nevada antpitta | Grallaria spatiator | Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta |
 | Muisca antpitta | Grallaria rufula | Andes of eastern Colombia and western Venezuela |
_Caldas.jpg) | Bicolored antpitta | Grallaria rufocinerea | Cauca and upper Magdalena valley |
 | Chami antpitta | Grallaria alvarezi | west of the Cauca River |
 | Equatorial antpitta | Grallaria saturata | east of the Cauca River, lower Magdalena valley and Ecuador |
| - | Cajamarca antpitta | Grallaria cajamarcae | west of the Huancabamba and upper Marañón river |
 | Chachapoyas antpitta | Grallaria graves | south of Marañón and north of Huallaga river |
 | Panao antpitta | Grallaria oneilli | south of Huallaga and north of Perené river |
 | Junin antpitta | Grallaria obscura | between the rio Perené, Ene and Apurímac |
 | Urubamba antpitta | Grallaria occabambae | Yanatili river |
 | Puno antpitta | Grallaria sinaensis | south of Sandia river (Peru) and north of Constanta river (Bolivia) |
| - | Bolivian antpitta | Grallaria cochabambae | Bolivian Andes |
 | Chestnut antpitta | Grallaria blakei | Cordillera Oriental (Peru) |
 | Oxapampa antpitta | Grallaria centralis | from the Huallaga to the Mantaro river |
 | Ayacucho antpitta | Grallaria ayacuchensis | between the rio Mantaro, Pampa and Apurímac |
 | Rufous-faced antpitta | Grallaria erythrotis | Yungas and Bolivian Andes |
 | Tawny antpitta | Grallaria quitensis | northern Andes |
 | Boyaca antpitta | Grallaria alticola | Cordillera Oriental (Colombia) |
 | Atuen antpitta | Grallaria atuensis | northern Cordillera Oriental (Peru) |
_Caldas.jpg) | Brown-banded antpitta | Grallaria milleri | Cordillera Central (Colombia) |
.jpg) | Urrao antpitta | Grallaria urraoensis | Páramo del Sol, Colombia |