Biology:Yellow-legged flyrobin

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Short description: Species of songbird native to New Guinea and northern Australia

Yellow-legged flyrobin
Naturalis Biodiversity Center - RMNH.AVES.135029 1 - Microeca griseoceps occidentalis Rothschild & Hartert, 1903 - Eopsaltriidae - bird skin specimen.jpeg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Petroicidae
Genus: Kempiella
Species:
K. griseoceps
Binomial name
Kempiella griseoceps
(De Vis, 1894)
Synonyms

Microeca griseoceps

The yellow-legged flyrobin or yellow-legged flycatcher (Kempiella griseoceps) is a species of passerine bird in the Australasian robin family Petroicidae. It is found in New Guinea and Cape York Peninsula. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.

The yellow-legged flyrobin was formerly placed in the genus Microeca. It was moved to the resurrected genus Kempiella that had originally been introduced by the Australian ornithologist Gregory Mathews based on the results of a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2011.[2][3]

References

  1. BirdLife International (2017). "Kempiella griseoceps". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T22704782A118820538. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T22704782A118820538.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22704782/118820538. Retrieved 16 November 2021. 
  2. 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. PMID 21867765. 
  3. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds (2019). "Australasian robins, rockfowl, rockjumpers, Rail-babbler". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/au_robins/. 

Wikidata ☰ Q1587875 entry