Biology:Leaflitter babbler
| Leaflitter babbler | |
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Not evaluated (IUCN 3.1)
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Pellorneidae |
| Genus: | Pellorneum |
| Species: | P. poliogene
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| Binomial name | |
| Pellorneum poliogene (Strickland, 1849)
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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]
References
- ↑ Strickland, Hugh Edwin (1849). "Notes on several species of birds from Malacca". Contributions to Ornithology for 1848-1853. Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars. p. "93-21", Plate 31. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51703094.
- ↑ Mayr, Ernst; Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, eds (1964). Check-List of Birds of the World. 10. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 251. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14486440.
- ↑ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 312. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4. https://archive.org/stream/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling#page/n312/mode/1up.
- ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds (December 2023). "Babblers, scimitar babblers, ground babblers, Alcippe fulvettas". IOC World Bird List Version 14.1. International Ornithologists' Union. https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/babblers/.
- ↑ 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. doi:10.1093/molbev/msab340. PMID 34893875.
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