White-browed gnatcatcher

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White-browed gnatcatcher
Naturalis Biodiversity Center - RMNH.AVES.139408 1 - Polioptila plumbea bilineata (Bonaparte, 1851) - Sylviidae - bird skin specimen.jpeg
Preserved specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Not recognized (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Polioptilidae
Genus: Polioptila
Species:
P. bilineata
Binomial name
Polioptila bilineata
(Bonaparte, 1850)
Polioptila bilineata map.svg

The white-browed gnatcatcher (Polioptila bilineata) is a species of bird in the gnatcatcher family Polioptilidae. It is native to central and South America.

This species was formerly considered a subspecies of the tropical gnatcatcher (Polioptila plumbea).

Taxonomy[]

The white-browed gnatcatcher was formally described in 1850 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte and given the binomial name Sylvia bilineata. Bonaparte specified the locality as Cartagena, a city on the Caribbean coast of Colombia.[1][2] This species was formerly considered as a subspecies of the tropical gnatcatcher (Polioptila plumbea). The white-browed gnatcatcher was split from the tropical gnatcatcher based on morphology and phylogenetic data.[3][4][5]

Five subspecies are recognised:[4]

  • P. b. brodkorbi Parkes, 1979 – south Mexico to north Costa Rica
  • P. b. superciliaris Lawrence, 1861 – north-central Costa Rica to north Colombia
  • P. b. cinericia Wetmore, 1957 – Coiba (island off south Panama)
  • P. b. bilineata (Bonaparte, 1850) – northwest Colombia to northwest Peru
  • P. b. daguae Chapman, 1915 – west-central Colombia

References[]

  1. ^ Bonaparte, Charles Lucian (1850). Conspectus Generum Avium (in Latin). Volume 1. Leiden: E.J. Brill. p. 316. |volume= has extra text (help)
  2. ^ Mayr, Ernst; Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, eds. (1964). Check-list of Birds of the World. Volume 10. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 452. |volume= has extra text (help)
  3. ^ Smith, B.T.; Bryson, R.W. Jr; Mauck, W.M.; Chaves, J.; Robbins, M.B.; Aleixo, A.; Klicka, J. (2018). "Species delimitation and biogeography of the gnatcatchers and gnatwrens (Aves: Polioptilidae)" (PDF). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 126: 45–57. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2018.03.012.
  4. ^ a b Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2021). "Dapple-throats, sugarbirds, fairy-bluebirds, kinglets, Elachura, hyliotas, wrens, gnatcatchers". IOC World Bird List Version 11.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  5. ^ Chesser, R.T.; Billerman, S.M.; Burns, K.J.; Cicero, C.; Dunn, J.L.; Hernández-Baños, B.E.; Kratter, A.W.; Lovette, I.J.; Mason, N.A.; Rasmussen, P.C.; Remsen, J.V.J.; Stotz, D.F.; Winker, K. (2021). "Sixty-second Supplement to the American Ornithological Society's Check-list of North American Birds". Ornithology (ukab037). doi:10.1093/ornithology/ukab037.
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