The Tatama tapaculo (Scytalopus alvarezlopezi) is a species of bird in the family Rhinocryptidae.

The English name is taken from Cerro Tatamá, the highest peak in the mountains where the Tatama tapaculo lives.

[2][8] Both the holotype and paratype of the Tatama tapaculo had enlarged gonads, which Stiles et al (2017) suggest means that the species breeds in the northern summer, when rainfall is at its lowest.

[2][8] The Tatama tapaculo's song is "a seemingly endless, machine-like series of short, unmodulated, frog-like phrases, each involving c. 7–9 nearly identical notes, which can be repeated up to 1.5 minutes, or more" [1].

Its population size and trend are not well known, its range is small, and it appears to be distributed as several subpopulations.