Sooty shrikethrush

"Colluricincla tenebrosa" redirects here. For the species of whistler endemic to Palau, see morningbird.

Sooty shrikethrush
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Pachycephalidae
Genus:	Colluricincla
Species:	C. tenebrosa
Binomial name
Colluricincla tenebrosa (Rothschild, 1911)
Subspecies
See text
Synonyms
Colluricincla umbrina Pachycephala tenebrosa

The sooty shrikethrush (Colluricincla tenebrosa) is a species of bird in the family Pachycephalidae. It is found in the New Guinea Highlands. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Taxonomy and systematics

The sooty shrikethrush was formerly known as Colluricincla umbrina(Reichenow, 1915), as the name Rectes tenebrosusHartlaub & Finsch, 1868 (the morningbird) has priority over Pachycephala tenebrosaRothschild, 1911 (the sooty shrikethrush) when the two species are placed in the same genus; with the transfer of the morningbird from the genus Colluricincla to Pachycephala in 2013, the sooty shrikethrush reverted from umbrina to the older name tenebrosa. ^[2] Alternate names for the sooty shrikethrush include the obscure shrike-thrush, sooty robin-whistler and sooty whistler.

Subspecies

Two subspecies are recognized: ^[3]

• C. t. atra – (Rothschild, 1931): Found on northern slopes of central New Guinea mountains
• C. t. tenebrosa – (Rothschild, 1911): Found on southern slopes of central New Guinea mountains

References

1. BirdLife International (2018). "Colluricincla tenebrosa". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2018: e.T22705543A130406443. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22705543A130406443.en . Retrieved 11 November 2021.
2. "Taxonomy 3.1-3.5 « IOC World Bird List". www.worldbirdnames.org. Retrieved 2017-02-13.
3. "IOC World Bird List 6.3". IOC World Bird List Datasets. doi: 10.14344/ioc.ml.6.3 .

External links

• Sooty Strikethrush at Birds of the World (Cornell Lab)