The Maratua shama (Copsychus barbouri) is a medium sized passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae that is found on the small island of Maratua, east of Borneo in Indonesia. It may now be extinct in the wild. It was formerly treated as a subspecies of the white-crowned shama.
| Maratua shama | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Muscicapidae |
| Genus: | Copsychus |
| Species: | C. barbouri
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| Binomial name | |
| Copsychus barbouri (Bangs & Peters, JL, 1927)
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Taxonomy
editThe Maratua shama was formally described in 1927 by the American ornithologists Outram Bangs and James L. Peters based on specimens collected on the island of Maratua by the Swedish naturalist Eric Mjöberg. Outram and Peters coined the binomial name Kittacincla barbouri where the specific epithet was chosen to honour the zoologist Thomas Barbour.[1][2] The Maratua shama is now placed with 16 other species in the genus Copsychus that was introduced in 1827 by the German naturalist Johann Georg Wagler.[3] It was formerly considered to be subspecies of the white-crowned shama (Copsychus stricklandii) but is now treated as a separate species based on differences in morphology and mitochondrial DNA sequences.[3][4] The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.[3]
Description
editThe male Maratua shama has a white crown, black upperparts, bright chestnut underparts, a white rump and a completely black tail.[5] The female is similar to the male but is smaller and the black feathers are duller and less glossy.[1]
Conservation status
editThe Maratua shama is highly threated by the cagebird trade and is possibly extinct in the wild.[5]
References
edit- ^ a b Bangs, Outram; Peters, James L. (1927). "Birds from Maratua Island, off the east coast of Borneo". Occasional papers of the Boston Society of Natural History. 5: 235-242 [239-240].
- ^ Mayr, Ernst; Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, eds. (1964). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 10. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 72.
- ^ a b c Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2024). "Chats, Old World flycatchers". IOC World Bird List Version 14.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 14 November 2024.
- ^ Chua, V.; Phillipps, Q.; Lim, H.; Taylor, S.; Gawin, D.; Abdul Rahman, M.; Moyle, R.; Sheldon, F. (2015). "Phylogeography of three endemic birds of Maratua Island, a potential archive of Bornean biogeography". The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 63: 259–269.
- ^ a b Kirwan, G.M.; Keeney, B.K. (2024). Keeney, B.K.; Billerman, S.M. (eds.). "Maratua Shama (Copsychus barbouri), version 1.0". Birds of the World. Ithaca, NY, USA: Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Retrieved 14 November 2024.