Pale-billed scrubwren

Pale-billed scrubwren
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Acanthizidae
Genus: Aethomyias
Species:
A. spilodera
Binomial name
Aethomyias spilodera
(Gray, 1859)
Subspecies[2]
  • A. s. ferrugineus - (Stresemann & Paludan, 1932)
  • A. s. spilodera - (Gray, GR, 1859)
  • A. s. granti - Hartert, 1930
  • A. s. guttatus - Sharpe, 1882
  • A. s. aruensis - (Ogilvie-Grant, 1911)
Synonyms
  • Sericornis spilodera

The pale-billed scrubwren (Aethomyias spilodera) is a bird species in the family Acanthizidae. It is found in the Aru Islands and New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

This species was formerly placed in the genus Sericornis but following the publication of a molecular phylogenetic study of the scrubwrens in 2018, it was moved to the resurrected genus Aethomyias.[3][4]

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Sericornis spilodera". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  2. ^ Gill F, D Donsker & P Rasmussen (Eds). 2020. IOC World Bird List (v10.2). doi : 10.14344/IOC.ML.10.2.
  3. ^ Norman, J.A.; Christidis, L.; Schodde, R. (2018). "Ecological and evolutionary diversification in the Australo-Papuan scrubwrens (Sericornis) and mouse-warblers (Crateroscelis), with a revision of the subfamily Sericornithinae (Aves: Passeriformes: Acanthizidae)". Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 18 (2): 241–259. Bibcode:2018ODivE..18..241N. doi:10.1007/s13127-018-0364-8. S2CID 46967802.
  4. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Bristlebirds, pardalotes, Australasian warblers". World Bird List Version 9.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 21 January 2019.