Myiothera rufa Wied, 1095

LECROY, MARY & SLOSS, RICHARD, 2000, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History. Part 3. Passeriformes: Eurylaimidae, Dendrocolaptidae, Furnariidae, Formicariidae, Conopophagidae, And Rhinocryptidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2000 (257), pp. 1-88 : 50

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0090(2000)257<0001:TSOBIT>2.0.CO;2
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12774911
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6F618792-FF84-FD6C-2826-D2C9FDC6FB9F
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scientific name	Myiothera rufa Wied
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Myiothera rufa Wied

Myiothera rufa Wied, 1831: 1095 (inneren Gegenden der Provinz Bahiá).

Now Formicivora rufa rufa (Wied, 1831) . See Allen, 1889b, 253 Zimmer, 1932: 8–9, Peters, 1951: 208, contra Pinto, 1978: 375.

SYNTYPES: AMNH 5353 and 5354, females, collected in the interior of Bahia, by Maximilian, Prince of Wied. From the Maximilian Collection.

COMMENTS: Allen (1889b: 253) was the first to note that Wied’s birds were the same species as Thamnophilus rufater of d’Orbigny and Lafresnaye and had 6 years’ priority over that name.