Biology:White-faced robin

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Short description: Species of songbird native to Cape York (Australia) and New Guinea

White-faced robin
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Petroicidae
Genus: Eopsaltria
Species:
E. leucops
Binomial name
Eopsaltria leucops
(Salvadori, 1876)
Synonyms

Tregellasia leucops

The white-faced robin (Eopsaltria leucops) is a species of bird in the Australasian robin family Petroicidae. It is found in New Guinea and eastern Cape York Peninsula of Queensland, Australia.[2] Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. This species was formerly placed in the genus Tregellasia.

Taxonomy

The white-faced robin was formally described in 1876 as Leucophantes leucops by the Italian zoologist Tommaso Salvadori based on a specimen collected in the Arfak Mountains on the Bird's Head Peninsula of New Guinea.[3][4] The specific epithet combines the Ancient Greek λευκος/leukos meaning "white" with ωψ/ōps, ωπος/ōpos meaning "face" or "eye".[5] The white-faced robin was formerly placed in the genus Tregellasia,[4][6] but based on a 2011 molecular genetic study by Les Christidis and coworkers, Tregellasia was merged into a more broadly defined Eopsaltria.[7][8]

Ten subspecies are recognised:[8]

  • E. l. leucops (Salvadori, AT, 1876) – mountains of Bird's Head Peninsula (western New Guinea)
  • E. l. mayri (Hartert, EJO, 1930) – New Guinea (Wandammen and Weyland mountains)
  • E. l. heurni (Hartert, EJO, 1932) – New Guinea (Weyland Mountains and upper Mamberano River)
  • E. l. nigroorbitalis (Rothschild, LW & Hartert, EJO, 1913) – New Guinea (Nassau and Snow mountains)
  • E. l. nigriceps (Neumann, OR, 1922) – New Guinea (Victor Emanuel and Snow mountains)
  • E. l. melanogenys (Meyer, AB, 1893) – northern New Guinea (Cyclops Mountains to Aicora River)
  • E. l. wahgiensis (Mayr, E & Gilliard, ET, 1952) – mountains of eastern New Guinea
  • E. l. albifacies (Sharpe, RB, 1882) – mountains of southeastern New Guinea
  • E. l. auricularis (Mayr, E & Rand, AL, 1935) – lowlands of southern New Guinea (Orimo River region)
  • E. l. albigularis (Rothschild, LW & Hartert, EJO, 1907) – northeastern Australia (northeastern Cape York Peninsula, northern Queensland)

References

  1. ↑ BirdLife International (2016). "Tregellasia leucops". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22704843A93988154.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22704843/93988154. Retrieved 11 November 2021. 
  2. ↑ "Species profile—Tregellasia leucops (white-faced robin)". Queensland Government. https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species-search/details/?id=1322. 
  3. ↑ Salvadori, Tommaso (1875). "Descrizione di cinquantotto nuove specie di uccelli, ed osservazioni intorno ad altre poco note, della Nuova Guinea e di altre Isole Papuane, raccolte dal Dr. Opoarpo Reccari e dai cacciatori del Sig. A.A. Bruijn" (in Italian, Latin). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 7: 896–976 [921]. 1876. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34621370. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds (1986). Check-List of Birds of the World. 11. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. pp. 569-570. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14484270. 
  5. ↑ Jobling, James A.. "leucops". The Key to Scientific Names. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/key-to-scientific-names/search?q=leucops. 
  6. ↑ Dickinson, E.C.; Christidis, L., eds (2014). The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 2: Passerines (4th ed.). Eastbourne, UK: Aves Press. p. 260. ISBN 978-0-9568611-2-2. 
  7. ↑ Christidis, L.; Irestedt, M.; Rowe, D.; Boles, W.E.; Norman, J.A. (2011). "Mitochondrial and nuclear DNA phylogenies reveal a complex evolutionary history in the Australasian robins (Passeriformes: Petroicidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61 (3): 726–738. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2011.08.014. 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 AviList Core Team (2025). "AviList: The Global Avian Checklist, v2025". doi:10.2173/avilist.v2025. http://www.avilist.org/checklist/v2025/. 

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