Canary flyrobin

The canary flyrobin (Devioeca papuana), also known as the Papuan flycatcher, canary robin, canary flycatcher, or montane flycatcher, is a species of bird in the family Petroicidae. It is found in New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Canary flyrobin
Illustration by J G Keulemans (1901)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Petroicidae
Genus: Devioeca
Mathews, 1925
Species:
D. papuana
Binomial name
Devioeca papuana
(Meyer A.B., 1875)
Synonyms

Microeca papuana

The canary flyrobin was described by the German ornithologist, Adolf Bernhard Meyer, in 1875, from a specimen collected in the Arfak Mountains on the island of New Guinea. He coined the binomial name Microeca papuana.[2][3] It was moved to the resurrected genus Devioeca, based on the results of a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2011.[4][5] The genus Devioeca was introduced by the Australian ornithologist, Gregory Mathews, in 1925.[6]

References
  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Microeca papuana". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. Meyer, Adolf Bernhard (1875). "Neu im Jahre 1873 vom ihm entedeckte Vögel von Neu-Guinea und der Insel Jobi im Norden Neu-Guinea's". Sitzungsberichte der Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft Isis in Dresden (in German): 74-76 [75].
  3. Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds. (1986). Check-list of Birds of the World. Volume 11. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 561.
  4. 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.
  5. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Australasian robins, rockfowl, rockjumpers, Rail-babbler". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
  6. Mathews, Gregory (1925). "Devioeca". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 45: 93.


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