Deconychura longicauda is a polytypic Neotropical species, disjunctly distributed in Central America, where it is quite rare, and South America, where it is also uncommon. Subspecies
typica is known from an isolated site in south
Honduras, where the only record dates from 1953. The rest of its population ranges from
Costa Rica east as far as Veraguas in central
Panama, where it is most often seen in the Canal Zone; it has possibly been extirpated from Chiriquí. Subspecies
dariensis is found in east Panama and adjacent north-west
Colombia. Subspecies
minor is endemic to Santander, north-central Colombia (del Hoyo
et al. 2003). The nominate subspecies
longicauda is uncommon in
Guyana and
French Guiana, and has only been recorded a few times in
Suriname (del Hoyo
et al. 2003, Restall
et al. 2006). Its range extends into north
Brazil, between Rio Negro and Amapá (del Hoyo
et al. 2003). Subspecies
connectens occurs in western Amazonia, from east Colombia and south
Venezuela; it is rare and local in
Ecuador and spreads south to east
Peru and the upper Rio Negro in north-west Brazil
(del Hoyo
et al. 2003, Restall
et al. 2006). Subspecies
pallida of south Amazonia ranges from eastern Peru, east to Rio Tapajós, Brazil, and south to north
Bolivia and the north of Brazil's Mato Grosso state. Subspecies
zimmeri is endemic to south-east Amazonian Brazil, occurring from Rio Tocantins east as far as Maranhão (del Hoyo
et al. 2003).
Rights Holder: International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Bibliographic Citation: BirdLife International 2012.
Deconychura longicauda. In: IUCN 2014 . IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1 . <
www.iucnredlist.org>
