| Clytoctantes | |
|---|---|
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| Recurve-billed bushbird (Clytoctantes alixii) | |
Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Thamnophilidae |
| Genus: | Clytoctantes Elliot, 1870 |
| Type species | |
| Clytoctantes alixii[1] Elliot, 1870 | |
| Species | |
See text | |
Clytoctantes is aSouth American genus ofpasserine birds in theantbird family, Thamnophilidae. Males are grey or black and females are mainlyrufous. The stubby, hefty bill has a distinctly upcurved lower mandible and a straightculmen (a large version of the bills of therecurvebills), which possibly is a modification for openingbamboo stems in their search for insects. The two species were feared to beextinct or nearly so, until both were rediscovered in 2004.
The name "bushbird" is shared with the rather similar, but smaller-billedblack bushbird from the monotypic genusNeoctantes.
