Aethomyias
Aethomyias | |
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Grey-green scrubwren, Aethomyias arfakianus by William Matthew Hart | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Acanthizidae |
Genus: | Aethomyias Sharpe, 1879 |
Aethomyias is a genus of passerine birds in the family Acanthizidae that are endemic to New Guinea.
A molecular phylogenetic study of the scrubwrens and mouse-warblers published in 2018 led to a substantial revision of the taxonomic classification. In the reorganisation the genus Aethomyias was resurrected to bring together a group of scrubwrens that had previously been placed in the genera Sericornis and Crateroscelis.[1][2] The genus Aethomyias had originally been introduced by the English ornithologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe in 1879 with the pale-billed scrubwren (Aethomyias spilodera) as the type species.[3][4] The name of the genus combines the Ancient Greek aēthēs "unusual" or "change" with ēthos "custom" or "character".[5]
The genus contains six species:[2]
- Bicolored scrubwren, Aethomyias nigrorufus
- Pale-billed scrubwren, Aethomyias spilodera
- Vogelkop scrubwren, Aethomyias rufescens
- Buff-faced scrubwren, Aethomyias perspicillatus
- Papuan scrubwren, Aethomyias papuensis
- Grey-green scrubwren, Aethomyias arfakianus
References
- ^ Norman, J.A.; Christidis, L.; Schodde, R. (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): 241–259. doi:10.1007/s13127-018-0364-8.
- ^ a b Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Bristlebirds, pardalotes, Australasian warblers". World Bird List Version 9.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
- ^ Sharpe, R. Bowdler (1879). Catalogue of the Passeriformes or Perching Birds in the Collection of the British Museum. Cichlomorphae Part 1. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Vol. Volume 4. London: Trustees of the British Museum. p. 271.
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has extra text (help) - ^ Jobling, J.A. (2019). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 21 January 2019.