Dendrocincla

Dendrocincla is a genus of bird in the woodcreeper subfamily Dendrocolaptinae.

Dendrocincla
Plain-brown woodcreeper, (Dendrocincla fuliginosa)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Furnariidae
Subfamily:	Dendrocolaptinae
Genus:	Dendrocincla G.R. Gray, 1840
Type species
Dendrocolaptes turdina[1] Lichtenstein, 1820
Species
6, see text

Taxonomy and systematics

Extant species

The genus contains six species:^[2]

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
	Dendrocincla tyrannina	Tyrannine woodcreeper	Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.
	Dendrocincla fuliginosa	Plain-brown woodcreeper	Honduras through South America to northern Argentina, and in Trinidad and Tobago.
	Dendrocincla turdina	Plain-winged woodcreeper	eastern Brazil from Rio Grande do Sul north to Bahia, north-east Argentina (Misiones Province) and eastern Paraguay.
	Dendrocincla anabatina	Tawny-winged woodcreeper	Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama.
	Dendrocincla merula	White-chinned woodcreeper	Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.
	Dendrocincla homochroa	Ruddy woodcreeper	southern Mexico to northern Colombia and extreme northern Venezuela.

Former species

Formerly, some authorities also considered the following species (or subspecies) as species within the genus Dendrocincla:

• Sangihe whistler (as Dendrocincla macrorhyncha)^[3]