Spotted scrubwren
Species of bird
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The spotted scrubwren (Sericornis maculatus) is a bird species native to coastal southern Australia, from Adelaide westwards to Shark Bay in Western Australia. It was formerly considered conspecific with the white-browed scrubwren, and is known to hybridize with that species where their ranges overlap in the Adelaide area.[1] Genetic analysis in a 2018 study of the family found that this taxon was more divergent from the white-browed scrubwren than the Tasmanian or Atherton scrubwrens and hence proposed its reclassification as a species.[2] It was reclassified as a species in 2019.[3]
| Spotted scrubwren | |
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| Spotted scrubwren with captured prey in beak | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Acanthizidae |
| Genus: | Sericornis |
| Species: | S. maculatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Sericornis maculatus Gould, 1847 | |
Taxonomy
Sericornis maculatus includes the following subspecies:[4]
- S. m. ashbyi - Mathews, 1912
- S. m. mellori - Mathews, 1912
- S. m. maculatus - Gould, 1847
- S. m. balstoni - Ogilvie-Grant, 1909
