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Magellanic Tapaculo

Scytalopus magellanicus

Classification

Class
Aves

The Magellanic tapaculo (Scytalopus magellanicus) is a small passerine bird in the tapaculo family Rhinocryptidae that is found in southern South America. Taxonomy The Magellanic tapaculo was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae. He placed it with the wagtails in the genus Motacilla and coined the binomial name Motacilla magellanica.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Chile · 15,534Argentina · 2,674