Babar whistler
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Pachycephalidae |
| Genus: | Pachycephala |
| Species: | P. sharpei
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| Pachycephala sharpei Meyer, AB, 1884
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The Babar whistler (Pachycephala sharpei) is a passerine bird in the family Pachycephalidae that is endemic to the island of Babar which lies at the eastern end of the Lesser Sunda Islands. It was formerly treated as a subspecies of the yellow-throated whistler.
Taxonomy
[edit | edit source]The Babar whistler was formally described in 1884 by the German naturalist Adolf Bernhard Meyer based on a specimen collected on the island of Babar in Indonesia. He coined the binomial name Pachycephala sharpei where the specific epithet was chosen to honour the English ornithologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe.[1][2][3] The Babar whistler was formerly classified as a subspecies of the yellow-throated whistler (Pachycephala macrorhyncha) but is now considered to be a separate species based on the deep genetic divergence, morphology, and distinct female plumage.[4][5] The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.[4]
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