White-throated Fiji whistler
Species of bird
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The white-throated Fiji whistler (Pachycephala vitiensis) is a species of bird in the family Pachycephalidae, endemic to islands in southern Fiji. It was formerly considered to be conspecific with the yellow-throated Fiji whistler (Pachycephala graeffii). Before the split the combined species were known as the "Fiji whistler".
| White-throated Fiji whistler | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Pachycephalidae |
| Genus: | Pachycephala |
| Species: | P. vitiensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Pachycephala vitiensis Gray, GR, 1860 | |
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Taxonomy and systematics
It was variably considered a subspecies of a widespread golden whistler (P. pectoralis).[2][3] Three of the subspecies of the former white-throated whistler (P. v. kandavensis, lauana, and vitiensis) were lumped with the Fiji whistler in 2014 by the IOC.[4] The Temotu whistler was formerly considered conspecific with the Fiji whistler.
Three subspecies are recognised:[5]
- P. v. kandavensis Ramsay, EP, 1876 – Beqa (south of Viti Levu) and Kadavu Island and satellites (southwest Fiji, southwest Polynesia)
- P. v. lauana Mayr, 1932 – south Lau Islands (southeast Fiji, southwest Polynesia)
- P. v. vitiensis Gray, GR, 1860 – Gau (central Fiji, southwest Polynesia)
