Philydor

Philydor is a genus of foliage-gleaners, birds in the ovenbird family Furnariidae.

Philydor
Black-capped foliage-gleaner
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Furnariidae
Genus:	Philydor Spix, 1824
Type species
Anabates atricapillus[1] zu Wied-Neuwied, 1821

Taxonomy

The genus Philydor was introduced in 1824 by the German naturalist Johann Baptist von Spix.^[2] The type species was subsequently designated as Anabates atricapillus Wied.^[3] The genus name is from Ancient Greek φιλυδρος/philudros meaning "water-loving".^[4]

The genus contains three species:^[5]

• Cinnamon-rumped foliage-gleaner, Philydor pyrrhodes
• Black-capped foliage-gleaner, Philydor atricapillus
• † Alagoas foliage-gleaner, Philydor novaesi (extinct)