North Moluccan cicadabird

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North Moluccan cicadabird
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Campephagidae
Genus: Edolisoma
Species:
E. grayi
Binomial name
Edolisoma grayi
Salvadori, 1879

The north Moluccan cicadabird (Edolisoma grayi) is a passerine bird in the family Campephagidae that is found on Halmahera, the Bacan Islands, the Tukangbesi Islands and the island of Morotai in the northern Moluccas Islands of Indonesia. The species was formerly considered to be conspecific with the common cicadabird, now renamed the Sahul cicadabird.

Taxonomy

The north Moluccan cicadabird was formally described in 1861 by the English zoologist George Gray based on a specimen that had been collected on the island of Bacon which lies southwest of Halmahera in Indonesia. Gray coined the binomial name Campephaga melanotis. [2] In 1879 the Italian zoologist Tommaso Salvadori coined the replacement name Edolisoma grayi as Gray's name was pre-occupied by Graucalus melanotis that had been introduced by John Gould in 1838. [3] [4] [5] Gould's Graucalus melanotis is now considered to be a junior synonym of a subspecies of the black-faced cuckooshrike Coracina novaehollandiae melanops (Latham, 1801). [6] [7] The north Moluccan cicadabird was formerly treated as conspecific with the common cicadabird (now renamed the Sahul cicadabird) (Edolisoma tenuirostre). It was elevated to species status based on differences in plumage and vocalization combined with the results of a molecular genetic study published in 2018. [7] [8] The genetic study found that the north Moluccan cicadabird was sister to the Sula cicadabird (Edolisoma suma). [8]

Two subspecies are recognised. [7]

References

  1. ↑ BirdLife International (2017) [amended version of 2016 assessment]. "Edolisoma grayi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2017 e.T103702585A112379605. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-1.RLTS.T103702585A112379605.en . Retrieved 26 September 2024.
  2. ↑ Gray, George Robert (1860). "List of birds collected by Mr. Wallace at the Moluccia Islands, with the descriptions of new species, etc". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (Part 28) (published 1861): 341–366 [353]. The title page is dated 1860 but the article was not published until the following year. See: Dickinson, Edward C. (2005). "The Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1859–1900: an exploration of breaks between calendar years of publication". Journal of Zoology. 266 (4): 427–430. doi:10.1017/S0952836905007077.
  3. ↑ Salvadori, Tommaso (1879). "Prodromus ornithologiae Papuasiae et Moluccarum". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova (in Latin). 15: 32–48 [37].
  4. ↑ Mayr, Ernst; Greenway, James C. Jr, eds. (1960). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 9. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 187.
  5. ↑ Gould, John (1838). A Synopsis of the Birds of Australia, and the Adjacent Islands. London: self. Part 4, Plate 54, Fig 3 and text.
  6. ↑ Mayr, Ernst; Greenway, James C. Jr, eds. (1960). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 9. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 172.
  7. 1 2 3 Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2024). "Bristlehead, butcherbirds, woodswallows, Mottled Berryhunter, ioras, cuckooshrikes". IOC World Bird List Version 14.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 28 September 2024.
  8. 1 2 Pedersen, M.P.; Irestedt, M.; Joseph, L.; Rahbek, C.; Jønsson, K.A. (2018). "Phylogeography of a 'great speciator' (Aves: Edolisoma tenuirostre) reveals complex dispersal and diversification dynamics across the Indo-Pacific". Journal of Biogeography. 45 (4): 826–837. Bibcode:2018JBiog..45..826P. doi:10.1111/jbi.13182. hdl: 11250/2593769 .
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