Sooty shrikethrush
Species of bird
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The sooty shrikethrush (Colluricincla tenebrosa) is a species of bird in the family Pachycephalidae. It is found in the New Guinea Highlands. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Pachycephalidae |
| Genus: | Colluricincla |
| Species: | C. tenebrosa |
| Binomial name | |
| Colluricincla tenebrosa (Rothschild, 1911) | |
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Taxonomy and systematics
The sooty shrikethrush was formerly known as Colluricincla umbrina (Reichenow, 1915), as the name Rectes tenebrosus Hartlaub & Finsch, 1868 (the morningbird) has priority over Pachycephala tenebrosa Rothschild, 1911 (the sooty shrikethrush) when the two species are placed in the same genus; with the transfer of the morningbird from the genus Colluricincla to Pachycephala in 2013, the sooty shrikethrush reverted from umbrina to the older name tenebrosa.[2] Alternate names for the sooty shrikethrush include the obscure shrike-thrush, sooty robin-whistler and sooty whistler.
Subspecies
Two subspecies are recognized:[3]
- C. t. atra – (Rothschild, 1931): Found on northern slopes of central New Guinea mountains
- C. t. tenebrosa – (Rothschild, 1911): Found on southern slopes of central New Guinea mountains
