Banded yellow robin

Banded yellow robin
Illustration by John Gould and W. Hart
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Petroicidae
Genus:	Eopsaltria
Species:	E. placens
Binomial name
Eopsaltria placens Ramsay, E.P., 1879
Synonyms
Poecilodryas placens Gennaeodryas placens

The banded yellow robin or olive-yellow robin (Eopsaltria placens) is a species of bird in the Australasian robin family Petroicidae that is found in New Guinea. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. It is threatened by habitat loss. It has a high mortality rate due to its inability to traverse across a matrix. ^[2]

Taxonomy

The banded yellow robin was described in 1879 as Eopsaltria placens by the Australian zoologist, Edward Pierson Ramsay from a specimen collected in southeastern New Guinea. ^[3] The specific epithet is Latin meaning "charming" or "pleasing". ^[4] The species was subsequently placed in the genus Poecilodryas . ^[5] Based on a 2011 molecular genetic study by Les Christidis and coworkers, ^[6] it was moved into the resurrected genus Gennaeodryas, ^[7] and is now placed in a more broadly defined Eopsaltria . The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised. ^[8]

References

1. BirdLife International. (2022). "Gennaeodryas placens". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2022 e.T22704880A217500213. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-2.RLTS.T22704880A217500213.en .
2. "Scopus preview - Scopus - Welcome to Scopus". www.scopus.com. Retrieved 2018-11-07.
3. Ramsay, E.P. (1879). "Contributions to the zoology of New Guinea. Parts I and II". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 3: 241–305 [272]. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.22241.
4. Jobling, James A. "placens". The Key to Scientific Names. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Retrieved 13 November 2025.
5. Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds. (1986). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 11. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 576.
6. Christidis, L.; Irestedt, M.; Rowe, D.; Boles, W.E.; Norman, J.A. (2011). "Mitochondrial and nuclear DNA phylogenies reveal a complex evolutionary history in the Australasian robins (Passeriformes: Petroicidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 61 (3): 726–738. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2011.08.014.
7. Dickinson, E.C.; Christidis, L., eds. (2014). The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. Vol. 2: Passerines (4th ed.). Eastbourne, UK: Aves Press. p. 260. ISBN   978-0-9568611-2-2.
8. AviList Core Team (2025). "AviList: The Global Avian Checklist, v2025". doi: 10.2173/avilist.v2025 . Retrieved 13 November 2025.

Further reading

• del Hoyo, J.; Elliot, A. & Christie D. (editors). (2007). Handbook of the Birds of the World . Volume 12: Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Lynx Edicions. ISBN   978-84-96553-42-2