Japanese Robin
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| Japanese Robin | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Muscicapidae |
| Genus: | Erithacus |
| Species: | E. akahige |
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| Erithacus akahige (Temminck, 1835) |
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The Japanese Robin (Erithacus akahige, formerly Luscinia akahige) or komadori is a songbird. Recent research suggests that the East Asian robins belong into a new genus uniting them with some East Asian Luscinias such as the Siberian Blue Robin.[2]
The name "Japanese Robin" is also sometimes used for the Red-billed Leiothrix (Leiothrix lutea).
The specific name akahige is, somewhat confusingly, the common name of its relative Erithacus komadori in Japanese.
[edit] References
- ^ BirdLife International (2004). "Erithacus akahige". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2006. International Union for Conservation of Nature. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/51735. Retrieved 12 May 2006.
- ^ Seki, Shin-Ichi (2006). "The origin of the East Asian Erithacus robin, Erithacus komadori, inferred from cytochrome b sequence data". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 39 (3): 899–905. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2006.01.028. PMID 16529957.
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