Philippine magpie-robin

The Philippine magpie-robin (Copsychus mindanensis) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is endemic to the Philippines. It used to be considered a subspecies of the Oriental magpie-robin.

Philippine magpie-robin
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Muscicapidae
Genus: Copsychus
Species:
C. mindanensis
Binomial name
Copsychus mindanensis
(Boddaert, 1783)

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Taxonomy

The Philippine magpie-robin was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1775 in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux from a specimen collected on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines.[2] The bird was also illustrated in a hand-coloured plate engraved by François-Nicolas Martinet in the Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle which was produced under the supervision of Edme-Louis Daubenton to accompany Buffon's text.[3] Neither the plate caption nor Buffon's description included a scientific name but in 1783 the Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert coined the binomial name Turdus mindanensis in his catalogue of the Planches Enluminées.[4] The Philippine magpie-robin is now one of 12 species placed in the genus Copsychus that was introduced by the German naturalist Johann Georg Wagler in 1827.[5][6] It was formerly considered as a subspecies of the oriental magpie-robin (Copsychus saularis) but was promoted to species status based on the results of a molecular phylogenetic study that was published in 2009.[6][7] The species is monotypic.[6] The genus name Copsychus is from the Ancient Greek kopsukhos or kopsikhos for a "blackbird". The specific mindanensis comes from "Mindanao", the type locality.[8]

References
  1. BirdLife International. 2016. Copsychus mindanensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T103893527A104347211. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T103893527A104347211.en. Downloaded on 24 May 2018.
  2. Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de (1775). "Le merle de Mindanao". Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux (in French). Volume 6. Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale. pp. 83–84.
  3. Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de; Martinet, François-Nicolas; Daubenton, Edme-Louis; Daubenton, Louis-Jean-Marie (1765–1783). "Merle de Mindanao". Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle. Volume 7. Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale. Plate 627 Fig. 1.
  4. Boddaert, Pieter (1783). Table des planches enluminéez d'histoire naturelle de M. D'Aubenton : avec les denominations de M.M. de Buffon, Brisson, Edwards, Linnaeus et Latham, precedé d'une notice des principaux ouvrages zoologiques enluminés (in French). Utrecht. p. 38, Number 627 Fig. 1.
  5. Wagler, Johann Georg (1827). Systema avium (in Latin). Stuttgart: J.G. Cottae. p. 306 (Gracula).
  6. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Chats, Old World flycatchers". IOC World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
  7. Sheldon, F.H.; Lohman, D.J.; Lim, H.C.; Zou, F.; Goodman, S.M.; Prawiradilaga, D.M.; Winker, K.; Brailem, T.M.; Moyle, R.G. (2009). "Phylogeography of the magpie-robin species complex (Aves: Turdidae: Copsychus) reveals a Philippine species, an interesting isolating barrier and unusual dispersal patterns in the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia". Journal of Biogeography. 36: 1070–1083. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2009.02087.x.
  8. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 117, 255. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
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