Obi cicadabird explained

The Obi cicadabird (Edolisoma obiense) is a passerine bird in the family Campephagidae that is found the island of Obi in the Maluku Islands (or Moluccas) in Indonesia. The species was formerly considered to be conspecific with the common cicadabird, now renamed the Sahul cicadabird.

Taxonomy

The Obi cicadabird was formally described in 1878 by the Italian zoologist Tommaso Salvadori based on specimens collected on the island of Obi in the Maluku Islands. Salvadori coined the binomial name Edolisoma obiense.[1] [2] The Obi cicadabird was formerly treated as conspecific with the common cicadabird (now renamed the Sahul cicadabird) (Edolisoma tenuirostre). It has been elevated to species status based on the differences in morphology and a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2018.[3] [4] The genetic study found that the Obi cicadabird was sister to the Banggai cicadabird.[4] The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.[3]

Notes and References

  1. 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 [329] .
  2. Book: Mayr . Ernst . Ernst Mayr . Greenway . James C. Jr . 1960 . Check-List of Birds of the World . 9 . Museum of Comparative Zoology . Cambridge, Massachusetts . 186 .
  3. 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 . 25 September 2024 .
  4. 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 .

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