White-faced robin
Species of songbird native to Cape York (Australia) and New Guinea
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The white-faced robin (Eopsaltria leucops) is a species of bird in the Australasian robin family Petroicidae. It is found in New Guinea and eastern Cape York Peninsula of Queensland, Australia.[2] Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. This species was formerly placed in the genus Tregellasia.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Petroicidae |
| Genus: | Eopsaltria |
| Species: | E. leucops |
| Binomial name | |
| Eopsaltria leucops (Salvadori, 1876) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Tregellasia leucops | |
Taxonomy
The white-faced robin was formally described in 1876 as Leucophantes leucops by the Italian zoologist Tommaso Salvadori based on a specimen collected in the Arfak Mountains on the Bird's Head Peninsula of New Guinea.[3][4] The specific epithet combines the Ancient Greek λευκος/leukos meaning "white" with ωψ/ōps, ωπος/ōpos meaning "face" or "eye".[5] The white-faced robin was formerly placed in the genus Tregellasia,[4][6] but based on a 2011 molecular genetic study by Les Christidis and coworkers, Tregellasia was merged into a more broadly defined Eopsaltria.[7][8]
Ten subspecies are recognised:[8]
- E. l. leucops (Salvadori, AT, 1876) – mountains of Bird's Head Peninsula (western New Guinea)
- E. l. mayri (Hartert, EJO, 1930) – New Guinea (Wandammen and Weyland mountains)
- E. l. heurni (Hartert, EJO, 1932) – New Guinea (Weyland Mountains and upper Mamberano River)
- E. l. nigroorbitalis (Rothschild, LW & Hartert, EJO, 1913) – New Guinea (Nassau and Snow mountains)
- E. l. nigriceps (Neumann, OR, 1922) – New Guinea (Victor Emanuel and Snow mountains)
- E. l. melanogenys (Meyer, AB, 1893) – northern New Guinea (Cyclops Mountains to Aicora River)
- E. l. wahgiensis (Mayr, E & Gilliard, ET, 1952) – mountains of eastern New Guinea
- E. l. albifacies (Sharpe, RB, 1882) – mountains of southeastern New Guinea
- E. l. auricularis (Mayr, E & Rand, AL, 1935) – lowlands of southern New Guinea (Orimo River region)
- E. l. albigularis (Rothschild, LW & Hartert, EJO, 1907) – northeastern Australia (northeastern Cape York Peninsula, northern Queensland)
