Visayan blue fantail
Appearance
Visayan blue fantail | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Rhipiduridae |
Genus: | Rhipidura |
Species: | R. samarensis
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Binomial name | |
Rhipidura samarensis (Steere, 1890)
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The Visayan blue fantail (Rhipidura samarensis) is a species of bird in the family Rhipiduridae.
It is endemic to the eastern Visayas (Philippines) : Bohol, Leyte and Samar. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It was previously conspecific with the Mindanao blue fantail.
References
- ^ BirdLife International. 2016. Rhipidura samarensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T103708706A104310737. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T103708706A104310737.en. Downloaded on 09 December 2018.
- Sánchez-González, L.A., and R.G. Moyle. 2011. Molecular systematic and species limits in the Philippine fantails (Aves: Rhipidura). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61: 290-299