Spotted scrubwren
| Spotted scrubwren | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Acanthizidae |
| Genus: | Sericornis |
| Species: | S. maculatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Sericornis maculatus Gould, 1847
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The spotted scrubwren (Sericornis maculatus) is a bird species native to coastal southern Australia, from Kangaroo Island and Adelaide westwards to Shark Bay in Western Australia. It is known to intergrade with the nominate subspecies where their ranges overlap.[1] Genetic analysis in a 2018 study of the family found that this taxon was more divergent from the white-browed scrubwren than the Tasmanian or Atherton scrubwrens and hence proposed its reclassification as a species.[2] It was reclassified as a species in 2019.[3]
References
- ^ Condon, HT (1951). "Notes on the birds of South Australia: occurrence, distribution and taxonomy". J. Aust. Ornithol. 20: 26–68.
- ^ Norman, Janette A.; Christidis, Les; Schodde, Richard (2018). "Ecological and evolutionary diversification in the Australo-Papuan scrubwrens (Sericornis) and mouse-warblers (Crateroscelis), with a revision of the subfamily Sericornithinae (Aves: Passeriformes: Acanthizidae)". Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 18 (2): 241–59. doi:10.1007/s13127-018-0364-8.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Bristlebirds, pardalotes, Australasian warblers". World Bird List Version 9.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
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