The Timor cicadabird (Edolisoma timoriense) is a passerine bird in the family Campephagidae that is found on the islands of Lembata, Alor and Timor in Indonesia. The species was formerly considered to be conspecific with the common cicadabird, now renamed the Sahul cicadabird.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Campephagidae |
| Genus: | Edolisoma |
| Species: | E. timoriense
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| Binomial name | |
| Edolisoma timoriense Sharpe, 1878
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Taxonomy
editThe Timor cicadabird was formally described in 1878 by English ornithologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe based on a specimen collected by Adolf Bernhard Meyer on the island of Timor, Indonesia. Sharpe coined the binomial name Edoliisoma timoriense.[1][2] The Timor cicadabird was formerly treated as conspecific with the common cicadabird (now renamed the Sahul cicadabird) (Edolisoma tenuirostre). It has been elevated to species status based on the differences in morphology and a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2018.[3][4]
Three subspecies are recognised:[3]
- E. t. kalaotuae Meise, 1929 – Kalaotoa (southeast of south Sulawesi)
- E. t. emancipatum Hartert, EJO, 1896 – Tanah Jampea (south of southwest Sulawesi)
- E. t. timoriense Sharpe, 1878 – Lembata, Alor Island and Timor (central, east Lesser Sunda Islands)
References
edit- ^ Sharpe, R. Bowdler (1878). "On the collections of birds made by Dr. Meyer during his expedition to New Guinea and some neighbouring islands". Mittheilungen aus dem K. Zoologischen Museum zu Dresden. 3: 349–372 [369].
- ^ Mayr, Ernst; Greenway, James C. Jr, eds. (1960). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 9. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 185.
- ^ a b Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2024). "Bristlehead, butcherbirds, woodswallows, Mottled Berryhunter, ioras, cuckooshrikes". IOC World Bird List Version 14.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
- ^ Pedersen, M.P.; Irestedt, M.; Joseph, L.; Rahbek, C.; Jønsson, K.A. (2018). "Phylogeography of a 'great speciator' (Aves: Edolisoma tenuirostre) reveals complex dispersal and diversification dynamics across the Indo-Pacific". Journal of Biogeography. 45 (4): 826–837. doi:10.1111/jbi.13182. hdl:11250/2593769.
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