Large scrubwren | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Acanthizidae |
Genus: | Sericornis |
Species: | S. nouhuysi |
Binomial name | |
Sericornis nouhuysi van Oort, 1909 | |
The large scrubwren (Sericornis nouhuysi) is a bird species. Placed in the family Pardalotidae in the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy, this has met with opposition and indeed is now known to be wrong; they rather belong to the independent family Acanthizidae.
It is found in New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
The large scrubwren was formally described in 1909 by the Dutch ornithologist Eduard Daniël van Oort based on a specimen collected in the Jayawijaya Mountains of western New Guinea by the Dutch explorer Hendrikus Albertus Lorentz. Van Oort considered the specimen to be a subspecies on the grey-green scrubwren (Aethomyias arfakianus) and coined the trinomial name Sericornis arfakiana nouhuysi. He chose the epithet nouhuysi to honour Jan Willem van Nouhuys, Lorentz's travelling companion. [2] [3] [4]
Ten subspecies are recognised: [5]
Subspecies S. n. virgatus, S. n. jobiensis and S. n. pontifex have sometimes been considered as a separate species, the perplexing scrubwren. [5]