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South Moluccan cicadabird

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South Moluccan cicadabird
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Campephagidae
Genus: Edolisoma
Species:
E. amboinense
Binomial name
Edolisoma amboinense
(Hartlaub, 1865)

The south Moluccan cicadabird (Edolisoma amboinense) is a passerine bird in the family Campephagidae that is found on the islands of Buru, Ambon and Seram in the Maluku Islands of Indonesia. The species was formerly considered to be conspecific with the common cicadabird, now renamed the Sahul cicadabird.

Taxonomy

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The south Moluccan cicadabird was formally described in 1865 by the German ornithologist Gustav Hartlaub based on a specimen collected on the Indonesian island of Amboina Ambon in the Maluku Islands. He coined the binomial name Ceblepyris amboinense.[1] The south Moluccan cicadabird was formerly treated as conspecific with the common cicadabird (now renamed the Sahul cicadabird) (Edolisoma tenuirostre) but has been elevated to species status.[2] The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Hartlaub, Gustav (1865). "Monographische Studien über die Gruppe der Campephaginen". Journal für Ornithologie (in Latin and German). 13 (75): 153-173 [156].
  2. ^ 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 25 September 2024.