This proposed taxon to the South American CC recently passed. So we have a new species of Herpsilochmus antwren on the Purus river, deep in south-western Amazonia:
I read it and thought maybe they were going for Predictable Antwren, perhaps some wry comment on behavior, and something got lost in translation.
But no.
They really mean Predicted Antwren:
"The name refers to the fact that the existence of this species was predicted before it was actually found and recognized"....
I thought it was amusing that the name polarised the review committee too.
Personally I agree with Alvaro that it's kinda cool.
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