Obi cicadabird

Obi cicadabird
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Campephagidae
Genus:	Edolisoma
Species:	E. obiense
Binomial name
Edolisoma obiense Salvadori, 1878

The Obi cicadabird (Edolisoma obiense) is a passerine bird in the family Campephagidae that is found the island of Obi in the Maluku Islands (or Moluccas) in Indonesia. The species was formerly considered to be conspecific with the common cicadabird, now renamed the Sahul cicadabird.

Taxonomy

The Obi cicadabird was formally described in 1878 by the Italian zoologist Tommaso Salvadori based on specimens collected on the island of Obi in the Maluku Islands. Salvadori coined the binomial name Edolisoma obiense.^[2][3] The Obi 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.^[4][5] The genetic study found that the Obi cicadabird was sister to the Banggai cicadabird.^[5] The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.^[4]

References

1. BirdLife International (2017) [amended version of 2016 assessment]. "Edolisoma obiense". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T103702589A112381029. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-1.RLTS.T103702589A112381029.en. Retrieved 25 September 2024.
2. Salvadori, Tommaso (1878). "Descrizione di trentuna specie nuove di uccelli della sottoregione papuana, e note intorno ad altre poco conosciute". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova (in Latin and Italian). 12: 317–347 [329].
3. Mayr, Ernst; Greenway, James C. Jr, eds. (1960). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 9. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 186.
4. 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.
5. 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.