Leaflitter babbler explained

The leaflitter babbler (Pellorneum poliogene) is a species of bird in the ground babbler family Pellorneidae that is found in northern and central Borneo. It was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the short-tailed babbler, now renamed the mourning babbler (Pellorneum malaccense).

Taxonomy

The leaflitter babbler was formally described in 1849 by the English naturalist Hugh Edwin Strickland based on a specimen collected in Borneo. He placed it with the shortwings in the genus Brachypteryx and coined the binomial name Brachypteryx poliogensis.[1] [2] The specific epithet combines the Ancient Greek polios meaning "grey" and genus meaning "cheek".[3] The leaflitter babbler is now placed in the genus Pellorneum that was introduced in 1832 by the English naturalist William Swainson. It was formerly treated as a subspecies of the short-tailed babbler (renamed the mourning babbler) (Pellorneum malaccense) but based on vocal and genetic differences it is now treated as a separate species and is considered to be monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.[4] [5]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Strickland, Hugh Edwin . Hugh Edwin Strickland . 1849 . Notes on several species of birds from Malacca . Contributions to Ornithology for 1848-1853 . Edinburgh . W.H. Lizars . "93-21", Plate 31 .
  2. Book: Mayr . Ernst . Ernst Mayr . Paynter . Raymond A. Jr . 1964 . Check-List of Birds of the World . 10 . Museum of Comparative Zoology . Cambridge, Massachusetts . 251 .
  3. Book: Jobling, James A. . 2010. The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . Christopher Helm . London . 978-1-4081-2501-4 . 312 .
  4. Web site: Gill . Frank . Frank Gill (ornithologist) . Donsker . David . Rasmussen . Pamela . Pamela C. Rasmussen . December 2023 . Babblers, scimitar babblers, ground babblers, Alcippe fulvettas . IOC World Bird List Version 14.1 . International Ornithologists' Union . 30 January 2024.
  5. Garg . K.M. . Chattopadhyay . B. . Cros . E. . Tomassi . S. . Benedick . S. . Edwards . D.P. . Rheindt . F.E. . 2022 . Island biogeography revisited: museomics reveals affinities of Shelf Island birds determined by bathymetry and paleo-rivers, not by distance to mainland . Molecular Biology and Evolution . 39 . 1 . msab340 . 10.1093/molbev/msab340 . free . 34893875 . 8789277 .

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