page_title: Cocoa woodcreeper
section_title: Systematics
hierarchical_section_title: Cocoa woodcreeper / Systematics
caption_attribution_description: Xiphorhynchus susurrans English: A Cocoa Woodcreeper near Rancho Naturalista, Cordillera de Talamanca, Costa Rica.
context_page_description: The cocoa woodcreeper is a passerine bird in the woodcreeper subfamily of the ovenbird family. It was formerly considered a subspecies of the buff-throated woodcreeper.
context_section_description: The cocoa woodcreeper was formerly included in the larger buff-throated woodcreeper, X. guttatus but has been recognized as specifically distinct. Eight subspecies are normally recognized, falling into two groups. It is not quite clear how these are related to each other and to the buff-throated woodcreeper.
  Subspecies
  "susurrans" group
  X. s. susurrans (Jardine, 1847) - Trinidad cocoa woodcreeper. Trinidad and Tobago, sometimes straying to the mainland.
  X. s. jardinei (Dalmas, 1900) - Eastern cocoa woodcreeper. NE Venezuela.
  X. s. margaritae Phelps, Sr. & Phelps, Jr., 1949 - Margarita cocoa woodcreeper. Isla Margarita.
  "nanus" group
  X. s. nanus (Lawrence, 1863) - Southern Lawrence's/cocoa woodcreeper. Coastward areas of E Panama south to Tolima Department, Colombia, and east to Miranda, Venezuela.
  X. s. costaricensis (Ridgway, 1888) - Central Lawrence's/cocoa woodcreeper. Coastward areas from SE Honduras to W Panama.
  X. s. confinis (Bangs, 1903) - Northern Lawrence's/cocoa woodcreeper. Caribbean slope of E Guatemala and N Honduras.
  X. s. rosenbergi Bangs, 1910 - Cauca Lawrence's/cocoa woodcreeper. Upper Cauca Valley, Colombia
  X. s. marginatus Griscom, 1927 - South Panamanian Lawrence's/cocoa woodcreeper. Pacific slope of C Panama.
caption: At Cordillera de Talamanca, Costa Rica
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