Gilolo Fantail
Rhipidura torrida
Small, active songbird with long, pale-tipped tail and warm brownish-orange on the forehead, rump, and tail base. Grayish brown above and pale below overall, with a white throat and black-speckled breast. Frequently cocks and fans tail. Endemic to the northern Moluccas (Halmahera, Bacan, Obi, Ternate), where it primarily inhabits hill and montane forest. Gives high-pitched, tinkling song and calls. Formerly grouped with other closely related species under “Rufous Fantail.”
分类信息
The Gilolo fantail was formally described and illustrated in 1865 by the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace based on a specimen collected on the summit of the Gamalama volcano on Ternate in the Maluku Islands. He placed it with the other fantails in the genus Rhipidura and coined the binomial name Rhipidura torrida. The specific epithet is from Latin meaning "scorched", "torrid" or "burning". The Gilolo fantail was formerly considered as a subspecies of the rufous fantail (now the Australian rufous fantail) (Rhipidura rufifrons) but is now treated as a separate species based on differences in the plumage, voice and genetics. The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.
- 学名
- Rhipidura torrida
- 命名信息
- Wallace, 1865
- 目
- Passeriformes
- 科
- Rhipiduridae
- 属
- Rhipidura
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