Ryukyu Robin

Ryukyu Robin
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Muscicapidae
Genus: Erithacus
Species: E. komadori
Binomial name
Erithacus komadori
(Temminck, 1835)

The Ryukyu Robin (Erithacus komadori) is a bird endemic to the Ryūkyū Islands, of Japan.[2] It is sometimes placed in the genus Luscinia, but recent research suggests that the East Asian robins belong into a new genus uniting them with some East Asian Luscinias such as the Siberian Blue Robin.[3]

The specific name komadori is, somewhat confusingly, the common name of its relative the Japanese Robin in Japanese.

References

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2008). "Erithacus komadori". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/147437. Retrieved 9 August 2011. 
  2. ^ Collar, N. J.; Andreev, A. V.; Chan, S.; Crosby, M. J.; Subramanya, S.; and Tobias, J. A., ed (2001). "Ryukyu Robin". Threatened Birds of Asia: The BirdLife International Red Data Book. BirdLife International. ISBN 0-946888-44-2. Archived from the original on 24 February 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20070224194324/http://www.rdb.or.id/detailbird.php?id=704. 
  3. ^ Seki, Shin-Ichi (2006). "The origin of the East Asian Erithacus robin, Erithacus komadori, inferred from cytochrome b sequence data". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 39 (3): 899–905. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2006.01.028. PMID 16529957.