Madagascar stonechat | |
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Female both near Andasibe | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Muscicapidae |
Genus: | Saxicola |
Species: | S. sibilla
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Binomial name | |
Saxicola sibilla (
Linnaeus, 1766)
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The Madagascar stonechat (Saxicola sibilla) is a species of stonechat, endemic to Madagascar. It is a small bird, closely similar to the African stonechat in both plumage and behaviour, but distinguished from it by the more extensive black on the throat and minimal orange-red on the upper breast of the males. [1]
In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the Madagascar stonechat in his Ornithologie based on a specimen collected in Madagascar. He used the French name Le traquet de Madagascar and the Latin Rubetra Madagascariensis. [2] Although Brisson coined Latin names, these do not conform to the binomial system and are not recognized by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. [3] When, in 1766, the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus updated his Systema Naturae for the twelfth edition, he added 240 species that had been previously described by Brisson. [3] One of these was the Madagascar stonechat. Linnaeus included a brief description, coined the binomial name Motacilla sibilla, and cited Brisson's work. [4] The specific name sibilla is from the Latin sibilare "to whistle". [5] This species is now placed in the genus Saxicola , which was introduced by the German naturalist Johann Matthäus Bechstein in 1802. [6]
The Madagascar stonechat has generally been considered a subspecies of African stonechat (as Saxicola torquatus sibilla [1]), but recent genetic evidence has shown that it is distinct, more closely related to Reunion stonechat than it is to African stonechat, [7] on which basis it is now accepted as a distinct species. Three subspecies are recognised. [8]
Madagascar stonechat | |
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Male | |
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Female both near Andasibe | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Muscicapidae |
Genus: | Saxicola |
Species: | S. sibilla
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Binomial name | |
Saxicola sibilla (
Linnaeus, 1766)
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Synonyms | |
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The Madagascar stonechat (Saxicola sibilla) is a species of stonechat, endemic to Madagascar. It is a small bird, closely similar to the African stonechat in both plumage and behaviour, but distinguished from it by the more extensive black on the throat and minimal orange-red on the upper breast of the males. [1]
In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the Madagascar stonechat in his Ornithologie based on a specimen collected in Madagascar. He used the French name Le traquet de Madagascar and the Latin Rubetra Madagascariensis. [2] Although Brisson coined Latin names, these do not conform to the binomial system and are not recognized by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. [3] When, in 1766, the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus updated his Systema Naturae for the twelfth edition, he added 240 species that had been previously described by Brisson. [3] One of these was the Madagascar stonechat. Linnaeus included a brief description, coined the binomial name Motacilla sibilla, and cited Brisson's work. [4] The specific name sibilla is from the Latin sibilare "to whistle". [5] This species is now placed in the genus Saxicola , which was introduced by the German naturalist Johann Matthäus Bechstein in 1802. [6]
The Madagascar stonechat has generally been considered a subspecies of African stonechat (as Saxicola torquatus sibilla [1]), but recent genetic evidence has shown that it is distinct, more closely related to Reunion stonechat than it is to African stonechat, [7] on which basis it is now accepted as a distinct species. Three subspecies are recognised. [8]