Spectacled monarch
| Spectacled monarch | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Monarchidae |
| Genus: | Symposiachrus |
| Species: | S. trivirgatus |
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| Symposiachrus trivirgatus (Temminck, 1826) | |
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Juvenile Dayboro, SE Queensland
The spectacled monarch (Symposiachrus trivirgatus) is a species of bird in the Monarchidae family. It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Taxonomy and systematics
This species was formerly placed in the genus Monarcha until moved to Symposiachrus in 2009.[1]
Subspecies
Some authorities consider the Moluccan monarch (Symposiachrus bimaculatus) as a subspecies (S. t. bimaculatus) of the spectacled monarch. There are seven subspecies recognized:[2]
- S. t. trivirgatus - (Temminck, 1826): found in central and eastern Lesser Sunda Islands
- S. t. nigrimentum - (Gray, GR, 1861): found in southern Lesser Sunda Islands
- S. t. bernsteinii - (Salvadori, 1878): found on Salawati (off western New Guinea)
- S. t. melanopterus - (Gray, GR, 1858): found in Louisiade Archipelago
- S. t. albiventris - (Gould, 1866): found in southern New Guinea, islands in the Torres Strait and Cape York Peninsula (north-eastern Australia)
- S. t. melanorrhous - (Schodde & Mason, IJ, 1999): found in north-eastern Queensland (north-eastern Australia)
- S. t. gouldii - (Gray, GR, 1861): found in eastern Australia
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References
- ↑ "IOC Bird List v2.0". 2009. Retrieved October 28, 2016.
- ↑ "IOC World Bird List 6.4". IOC World Bird List Datasets. doi:10.14344/ioc.ml.6.4.
- BirdLife International 2004. Monarcha trivirgatus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 26 July 2007.
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