The Babar whistler (Pachycephala sharpei) is a passerine bird in the family Pachycephalidae that is endemic to the island of Babar which lies at the eastern end of the Lesser Sunda Islands. It was formerly treated as a subspecies of the yellow-throated whistler.
| Babar whistler | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Pachycephalidae |
| Genus: | Pachycephala |
| Species: | P. sharpei
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| Binomial name | |
| Pachycephala sharpei Meyer, AB, 1884
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Taxonomy
editThe Babar whistler was formally described in 1884 by the German naturalist Adolf Bernhard Meyer based on a specimen collected on the island of Babar in Indonesia. He coined the binomial name Pachycephala sharpei where the specific epithet was chosen to honour the English ornithologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe.[1][2][3] The Babar whistler was formerly classified as a subspecies of the yellow-throated whistler (Pachycephala macrorhyncha) but is now considered to be a separate species based on the deep genetic divergence, morphology, and distinct female plumage.[4][5] The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.[4]
References
edit- ^ Meyer, Adolf Bernhard (1884). "Ueber neue und ungenügend bekannte Vögel, Nester und Eier aus dem Ostindischen Archipel im Königl. Zoologischen Museum zu Dresden". Sitzungsberichte und Abhandlungen der Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft Isis in Dresden (in German and Latin): 3-64 [36].
- ^ Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1986). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 12. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 20.
- ^ Jobling, James A. "sharpei". The Key to Scientific Names. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Retrieved 21 September 2024.
- ^ a b Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2024). "Whiteheads, sittellas, Ploughbill, Australo-Papuan bellbirds, Shriketit, whistlers". IOC World Bird List Version 14.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 21 September 2024.
- ^ Jønsson, K.A.; Irestedt, M.; Christidis, L.; Clegg, S.M.; Holt, B.G.; Fjeldså, J. (2014). "Evidence of taxon cycles in an Indo-Pacific passerine bird radiation (Aves: Pachycephala)". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. doi:10.1098/rspb.2013.1727.