Typus

• Synallaxis albiceps Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837 = Cranioleuca albiceps

Synonyms

• Acrorchilus Ridgway, 1909
• Craniolenca [variation]

Primary references

• Handbuch der speciellen Ornithologie (Icon.Syn.Av.no.10) p.167

Additional references

• Maijer, S. & Fjeldså, J. 1997. Description of a new Cranioleuca spinetail from Bolivia and a "leapfrog pattern" of geographic variation in the genus. Ibis 139:609, 610, front. DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.1997.tb04683.x AbstractReference page. 

• García-Moreno, J., Arctander, P. & Fjeldså, J. (1999). A case of rapid diversification in the Neotropics: phylogenetic relationships among Cranioleuca spinetails (Aves, Furnariidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 12:273–281. DOI: 10.1006/mpev.1999.0617 . AbstractReference page. 

• Derryberry, E., Claramunt, S., Derryberry, G., Chesser, R.T., Cracraft, J., Aleixo, A., Pérez-Emán, J., Remsem, Jr, J.V. & Brumfield, R.T. (2011). Lineage diversification and morphological evolution in a large-scale continental radiation: the Neotropical ovenbirds and woodcreepers (Aves: Furnariidae). Evolution 65: 2973–2986. DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01374.x Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

• Seeholzer, G.F. & Brumfield, R.T. 2017. Isolation by distance, not incipient ecological speciation, explains genetic differentiation in an Andean songbird (Aves: Furnariidae: Cranioleuca antisiensis, Line-cheeked Spinetail) despite near threefold body size change across an environmental gradient. Molecular Ecology 27(1): 279-296. DOI: 10.1111/mec.14429 Reference page.