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Lepidocolaptes
File:Spot-crowned Woodcreeper.jpg
Lepidocolaptes affinis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Furnariidae
Subfamily: Dendrocolaptinae
Genus: Lepidocolaptes
L. Reichenbach, 1853
Species

see text

Lepidocolaptes is a genus of bird in the Dendrocolaptinae subfamily. These are relatively small woodcreepers with fairly long, thin and slightly decurved bills.

Species

The Lesser Woodcreeper was formerly included in this genus, but is now in Xiphorhynchus.

References




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