Colluricincla_tenebrosa

Sooty shrikethrush

Sooty shrikethrush

Species of bird


The sooty shrikethrush (Colluricincla tenebrosa) is a species of bird in the family Pachycephalidae. It is found in the New Guinea Highlands. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

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Taxonomy and systematics

The sooty shrikethrush was formerly known as Colluricincla umbrina (Reichenow, 1915), as the name Rectes tenebrosus Hartlaub & Finsch, 1868 (the morningbird) has priority over Pachycephala tenebrosa Rothschild, 1911 (the sooty shrikethrush) when the two species are placed in the same genus; with the transfer of the morningbird from the genus Colluricincla to Pachycephala in 2013, the sooty shrikethrush reverted from umbrina to the older name tenebrosa.[2] Alternate names for the sooty shrikethrush include the obscure shrike-thrush, sooty robin-whistler and sooty whistler.

Subspecies

Two subspecies are recognized:[3]

  • C. t. atra - (Rothschild, 1931): Found on northern slopes of central New Guinea mountains
  • C. t. tenebrosa - (Rothschild, 1911): Found on southern slopes of central New Guinea mountains

References

  1. BirdLife International (2018). "Colluricincla tenebrosa". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22705543A130406443. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22705543A130406443.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  2. "Taxonomy 3.1-3.5 « IOC World Bird List". www.worldbirdnames.org. Retrieved 2017-02-13.
  3. "IOC World Bird List 6.3". IOC World Bird List Datasets. doi:10.14344/ioc.ml.6.3.



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