Fiji_streaked_fantail

Fiji streaked fantail

Fiji streaked fantail

Species of bird

The Fiji streaked fantail (Rhipidura layardi) is a species of bird in the family Rhipiduridae that is endemic to the islands of Fiji. It was formerly considered to be subspecies of the streaked fantail (now the New Caledonian streaked fantail). Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

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Taxonomy

The binomial name Rhipidura layardi was introduced in 1877 by the Italian zoologist Tommaso Salvadori as a replacement name for Rhipidura albogularis.[2] This earlier name had been introduced by the naturalist Edgar Leopold Layard in 1875 based on a specimen collected on the island of Ovalau in the Fiji islands.[3][4] The specific epithet albogulari was preoccupied as it had been used in 1831 in the combination Muscicapa (Muscylva) albogularis by the French naturalist René Lesson for the white-spotted fantail.[5][6]

Three subspecies are recognised:[7]

References

  1. [1]
    BirdLife International (2016). "Rhipidura layardi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T103710807A104327171. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T103710807A104327171.en. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  2. [2]
    Salvadori, Tommaso (1877). "Notes on two birds from the Fiji Islands". Ibis: 142–796 [143].
  3. [3]
    Layard, Edgar Leopole (1875). "Orthological notes from Fiji, with descriptions of supposed new species of birds". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1875: 27–30 [29].
  4. [4]
    Layard, Edgar Leopole (1875). "Notes on Fijian birds". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1875: 423–442 [434].
  5. [5]
    Lesson, René P. (1831). Bélanger, Charles (ed.). Voyage aux Indes-orientales, par le nord de l'Europe (in French). Vol. 3: Zoologie. Paris: Arthus Bertrand. pp. 264–265.
  6. [6]
    Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds. (1986). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 11. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 548.
  7. [7]
    Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (December 2023). "Orioles, drongos, fantails". IOC World Bird List Version 14.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 15 January 2024.

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