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Formerly considered conspecific with Northern Slaty Antshrike (Thamnophilus punctatus), Natterer's Slaty Antshrike (Thamnophilus stictocephalus), Bolivian Slaty Antshrike (Thamnophilus sticturus), Planalto Slaty Antshrike (Thamnophilus pelzelni) and Sooretama Slaty Antshrike (Thamnophilus ambiguus), but now thought not to belong in this group. Described form subcinereus (northern Colombia) is regarded as a clinal variant of nominate.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

• atrinucha Salvin & Godman, 1892   -  Caribbean slope from southern Belize and north-eastern Guatemala south to northern Colombia (including Magdalena Valley) and north-western Venezuela (east to Trujillo, eastern side of L Maracaibo), and Pacific slope in north-western Costa Rica and from central Panama (Coclé) south to extreme north-western Peru (Tumbes).
• gorgonae Thayer & Bangs, 1905   -  Gorgona I, off Cauca, western Colombia.

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