Perplexing scrubwren

The perplexing scrubwren (Sericornis virgatus) is a bird species. Placed in the family Pardalotidae in the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy, this has met with opposition and indeed is now known to be wrong; they rather belong to the independent family Acanthizidae.

Perplexing scrubwren
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Acanthizidae
Genus: Sericornis
Species:
S. virgatus
Binomial name
Sericornis virgatus
(Reichenow, 1915)

It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

It owes its vernacular name to its problematic taxonomy. In some areas it interbreeds with the large scrubwren (Sericornis nouhuysi), with which it is often considered conspecific, but in other areas they apparently do not interbreed.

Taxonomy

Sericornis virgatus includes the following subspecies:[2]

  • S. v. imitator - Mayr, 1937
  • S. v. jobiensis - Stresemann & Paludan, 1932
  • S. v. boreonesioticus - Diamond, 1969
  • S. v. pontifex - Stresemann, 1921
  • S. v. virgatus - (Reichenow, 1915)

References
  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Sericornis virgatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. Gill F, D Donsker & P Rasmussen (Eds). 2020. IOC World Bird List (v10.2). doi : 10.14344/IOC.ML.10.2.


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