Geelvink cicadabird explained

The Geelvink cicadabird (Edolisoma meyerii) is a passerine bird in the family Campephagidae that is found on the islands of Numfor and Biak in the Geelvink Bay of New Guinea. It was formerly considered to be conspecific with the common cicadabird, now renamed the Sahul cicadabird.

Taxonomy

The Geelvink cicadbird was formally described in 1878 by the Italian zoologist Tommaso Salvadori based on a specimen collected on the island of Biak in the Geelvink Bay of New Guinea. He coined the binomial name Edolisoma meyerii where the specific epithet was chosen to honour the German physician Adolf Bernhard Meyer.^[1] ^[2] ^[3] The Geelvink cicadbird was formerly treated as conspecific with the common cicadabird (now renamed the Sahul cicadabird) (Edolisoma tenuirostre) but has been elevated to species status based on plumage differences and a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2018.^[4] ^[5]

Two subspecies are recognised:^[4]

E. m. numforanum (Peters, JL & Mayr, 1960) – Numfor (Geelvink Bay Islands, northwest New Guinea)
E. m. meyerii Salvadori, 1878 – Biak (Geelvink Bay Islands, northwest New Guinea)

Notes and References

Salvadori . Tommaso . Tommaso Salvadori . 1878 . Descrizione di trentuna specie nuove di uccelli della sottoregione papuana, e note intorno ad altre poco conosciute . Latin, Italian . Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova . 12 . 317–347 [327-328] .
Book: Mayr . Ernst . Ernst Mayr . Greenway . James C. Jr . 1960 . Check-List of Birds of the World . 9 . Museum of Comparative Zoology . Cambridge, Massachusetts . 187 .
Web site: Jobling . James A. . meyerii . The Key to Scientific Names . Cornell Lab of Ornithology . 23 September 2024 .
Web site: Gill . Frank . Frank Gill (ornithologist) . Donsker . David . Rasmussen . Pamela . Pamela C. Rasmussen . August 2024 . Bristlehead, butcherbirds, woodswallows, Mottled Berryhunter, ioras, cuckooshrikes . IOC World Bird List Version 14.2 . International Ornithologists' Union . 23 September 2024 .
Pedersen . M.P. . Irestedt . M. . Joseph . L. . Rahbek . C. . Jønsson . K.A. . 2018 . Phylogeography of a ‘great speciator’ (Aves: Edolisoma tenuirostre) reveals complex dispersal and diversification dynamics across the Indo-Pacific . Journal of Biogeography . 45 . 4 . 826-837 . 10.1111/jbi.13182. 11250/2593769 . free .