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The squamate antbird (Myrmoderus squamosus) is a species of bird in subfamily Thamnophilinae of family Thamnophilidae, the "typical antbirds". It is endemic to Brazil. The squamate antbird is 14 to 15 cm (5.5 to 5.9 in) long and weighs 16.5 to 20 g (0.58 to 0.71 oz). Adult males have a dark yellowish brown crown and upperparts with a white patch between their scapulars; some black is scattered across their back. They have a long gray-tinged white supercilium on an otherwise mostly black face. Their tail is dark yellowish brown with tawny feather edges. Their flight feathers are brownish with rufous edges and their wing coverts black with wide white tips. Their chin and throat are black. Their breast and side feathers are black with wide white edges. Their belly is white and their flanks and crissum ochre-brown. Adult females are similar to males but with paler upperparts, a white throat with faint gray bars, plain white underparts, and olive-brown flanks and sides. The squamate antbird is found in eastern Brazil from southern São Paulo state south to northern Rio Grande do Sul. There is also one record from Iguaçu National Park in western Paraná. The species mostly inhabits the floor of evergreen forest and nearby mature secondary forest, and is also found locally near the coast in restinga woodland on sandy soil. It favors areas with many saplings and a dense herbaceous understorey. In elevation it ranges from sea level to 1,000 m (3,300 ft).