Banded yellow robin explained

The banded yellow robin or olive-yellow robin (Gennaeodryas placens) is a species of bird in the Australasian robin family Petroicidae that is found in New Guinea. It is the only species in the genus Gennaeodryas. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.It is threatened by habitat loss. It has a high mortality rate due to its inability to traverse across a matrix.[1]

Taxonomy

The banded yellow robin was described by the Australian zoologist, Edward Pierson Ramsay, in 1879, from a specimen collected in southeastern New Guinea. He coined the binomial name Eopsaltria placens.[2] The species was subsequently placed in the genus Poecilodryas.[3] It was moved to the resurrected genus Gennaeodryas, based on the results of a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2011.[4] [5] The genus Gennaeodryas had been introduced by the Australian ornithologist, Gregory Mathews, in 1920.[6] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek gennaios 'noble' or 'high-born' with dryad 'tree-nymph'.[7] The specific epithet placens is the Latin word for 'charming' or 'pleasing'.[8]

References

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Scopus preview - Scopus - Welcome to Scopus. www.scopus.com. en-US. 2018-11-07.
  2. Ramsay . E.P. . Edward Pierson Ramsay . 1879 . Contributions to the zoology of New Guinea. Parts I and II . Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales . 3 . 241–305 [272] . 10.5962/bhl.part.22241 .
  3. Book: Mayr . Ernst . Ernst Mayr . Cottrell . G. William . 1986 . Check-list of Birds of the World . 11 . Museum of Comparative Zoology . Cambridge, Massachusetts . 576 .
  4. Christidis . L. . Irestedt . M. . Rowe . D. . Boles . W.E. . Norman . J.A. . 2011 . Mitochondrial and nuclear DNA phylogenies reveal a complex evolutionary history in the Australasian robins (Passeriformes: Petroicidae) . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution . 61 . 3 . 726–738 . 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.08.014 . 21867765 .
  5. Web site: Gill . Frank . Frank Gill (ornithologist) . Donsker . David . 2019 . Australasian robins, rockfowl, rockjumpers, Rail-babbler . World Bird List Version 9.2 . International Ornithologists' Union . 17 June 2019 .
  6. Book: Mathews, Gregory . Gregory Mathews . 1920 . Birds of Australia . 8 . London . Witherby . 186 .
  7. Web site: Jobling . J.A. . 2019 . Gennaeodryas . del Hoyo . J. . Elliott . A. . Sargatal . J. . Christie . D.A. . de Juana . E. . Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive: Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology . Lynx Edicions . 17 June 2019 .
  8. Web site: Jobling . J.A. . 2019 . placens-placentis . del Hoyo . J. . Elliott . A. . Sargatal . J. . Christie . D.A. . de Juana . E. . Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive: Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology . Lynx Edicions . 17 June 2019 .

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Banded yellow robin".

Except where otherwise indicated, Everything.Explained.Today is © Copyright 2009-2024, A B Cryer, All Rights Reserved. Cookie policy.