Sooty shrikethrush

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.

Sooty shrikethrush
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Pachycephalidae
Genus: Colluricincla
Species:
C. tenebrosa
Binomial name
Colluricincla tenebrosa
(Rothschild, 1911)
Subspecies

See text

Synonyms
  • Colluricincla umbrina
  • Pachycephala tenebrosa

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 (2016). "Colluricincla umbrina". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016. Retrieved 15 February 2017.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  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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