Davison's leaf warbler
Davison's leaf warbler (Phylloscopus intensior) or the white-tailed leaf warbler, is a species of leaf warbler (family Phylloscopidae). It was formerly included in the "Old World warbler" assemblage.
Davison's leaf warbler | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Phylloscopidae |
Genus: | Phylloscopus |
Species: | P. intensior |
Binomial name | |
Phylloscopus intensior Deignan, 1956 | |
Synonyms | |
Phylloscopus davisoni (Oates, 1889) |
It is found in the People's Republic of China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.
A species from Mount Mulayit called the Tenasserim white-tailed willow warbler (Acanthopneuste davisoni) named after the collector William Ruxton Davison was described by Eugene Oates in 1889.[2] To this species was added a few more subspecies, including disturbans, ogilviegranti, and klossi. Another subspecies was described by the American ornithologist Herbert Girton Deignan in 1956 and given the trinomial name Phylloscopus davisoni intensior.[3] The taxa disturbans, ogilviegranti and klossi were found to form a clade that is sister to P. hainanus. Since ogilviegranti was the first described of the three members of the clade it was elevated to a species and the two others made into subspecies since the sequence differences were small.[4] A study of the mitochondrial DNA sequences and calls suggested that davisoni in the strict sense was a sister of Seicercus xanthoschistos.[5][6] This left the form intensior which was unrelated and was then elevated as a full species and a second subspecies was added to it, P. i. muleyitensis (Dickinson & Christidis, 2014).[7]
References
- BirdLife International (2017). "Phylloscopus intensior". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T22734251A113317849. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-1.RLTS.T22734251A113317849.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- Oates, Eugene W. (1889). The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Birds. Volume 1. London: Taylor and Francis. p. 420.
- Deignan, H.G. (1956). "New races of birds from Laem Thong, the Golden Chersonese". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 69: 207–211 [209].
- Olsson, Urban; Alström, Per; Ericson, Per G.P.; Sundberg, Per (2005). "Non-monophyletic taxa and cryptic species—Evidence from a molecular phylogeny of leaf-warblers (Phylloscopus, Aves)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 36 (2): 261–276. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2005.01.012.
- Martens, Jochen (2010). "A preliminary review of the leaf warbler genera Phylloscopus and Seicercus. Systematic notes on Asian birds 72". Brit. Orn. Club. Occas. Publs. 5: 41–116.
- Packert, M (2004). "The radiation of the complex and its congeners (Aves: Sylviidae): molecular genetics and bioacoustics". Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 4 (4): 341–364. doi:10.1016/j.ode.2004.06.002.
- Alström, Per; Rheindt, Frank E.; Zhang, Ruiying; Zhao, Min; Wang, Jing; Zhu, Xiaojia; Gwee, Chyi Yin; Hao, Yan; Ohlson, Jan; Jia, Chenxi; Prawiradilaga, Dewi M.; Ericson, Per G.P.; Lei, Fumin; Olsson, Urban (2018). "Complete species-level phylogeny of the leaf warbler (Aves: Phylloscopidae) radiation". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 126: 141–152. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2018.03.031.