| Cryptic Treehunter | |||
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| General information | |||
| Universe | Real Life | ||
| Aliases | Formerly mistaken for the Alagoas Goliage-gleaner | ||
| Classification | Cichlocolaptes mazarbarnetti | ||
| Species type | Ovenbird | ||
| Homeworld | Earth | ||
| Environment | Humid forests of northeast Brazil | ||
| Intelligence | Non-sapient | ||
| Biochemistry | Carbon-based lifeform | ||
| Discovered | Before 2007 (formally described in 2014) | ||
| Discoverer | Mazar Barnett & Buzzetti | ||
| Biological information | |||
| Reproduction | Sexual; lays eggs | ||
| Locomotion | Powered flight | ||
| Distinctive features | Able to be misidentified as an Alagoas Goliage-gleaner | ||
| Lineage information | |||
| Cultural information | |||
| Alignment | True Neutral | ||
| Sociocultral characteristics | |||
| Scientific taxonomy | |||
| Planet | Earth | ||
| Domain | Eukaryota | ||
| Kingdom | Animalia | ||
| Subkingdom | Eumetazoa | ||
| Infrakingdom | Bilateria | ||
| Superphylum | Deuterostomia | ||
| Phylum | Chordata | ||
| Superclass | Tetrapoda | ||
| Class | Aves | ||
| Infraclass | Neognathae (Neognaths) | ||
| Superorder | Neoaves | ||
| Order | Passeriformes (Passerines) | ||
| Infraorder | Tyrannides (Suboscines) | ||
| Family | Furnariidae (Ovenbirds) | ||
| Genus | Cichlocolaptes | ||
| Species | mazarbarnetti | ||
| Other information | |||
| Status | Extinct | ||
| Last sighting | 2007 | ||
| Possible population | 0 | ||
The Cryptic Treehunter (Cichlocolaptes mazarbarnetti) is an extinct species of ovenbird formerly endemic to the humid forests of northeast Brazil: Murici in Alagoas and Frei Caneca in Pernambuco.
Discovery after extinction[]
The species was described from a specimen in 2014 that had previously been misidentified as an Alagoas Foliage-gleaner; despite this the species was actually last seen in the wild 7 years earlier in 2007. The IUCN classified the species as being critically endangered in 2018 but this was progressed to being officially extinct 2019, the same year that the Alagoas Foliage-gleaner was determined to also be extinct.