Biology:Vogelkop scrubwren

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Short description: Species of bird

Vogelkop scrubwren
Naturalis Biodiversity Center - RMNH.AVES.135702 1 - Sericornis rufescens (Salvadori, 1876) - Acanthizidae - bird skin specimen.jpeg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Acanthizidae
Genus: Aethomyias
Species:
A. rufescens
Binomial name
Aethomyias rufescens
(Salvadori, 1876)
Synonyms

Sericornis rufescens

The Vogelkop scrubwren (Aethomyias rufescens) is a bird species in the family Acanthizidae. It is endemic to West Papua, Indonesia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

This species was formerly placed in the genus Sericornis but following the publication of a molecular phylogenetic study of the scrubwrens in 2018, it was moved to the resurrected genus Aethomyias.[1][2]

References

  1. Norman, J.A.; Christidis, L.; Schodde, R. (2018). "Ecological and evolutionary diversification in the Australo-Papuan scrubwrens (Sericornis) and mouse-warblers (Crateroscelis), with a revision of the subfamily Sericornithinae (Aves: Passeriformes: Acanthizidae)". Organisms Diversity & Evolution 18 (2): 241–259. doi:10.1007/s13127-018-0364-8. 
  2. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds (2019). "Bristlebirds, pardalotes, Australasian warblers". World Bird List Version 9.1. International Ornithologists' Union. https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/bristlebirds/. 

Wikidata ☰ Q1922995 entry