Long-billed Bernieria

Long-billed Bernieria
For the plant genus Bernieria, see its synonym Beilschmiedia.
Long-billed Bernieria
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: See text
Genus: Bernieria
Species: B. madagascariensis
Binomial name
Bernieria madagascariensis
(Gmelin, 1789)[1]
Synonyms

Phyllastrephus madagascariensis

The Long-billed Bernieria (Bernieria madagascariensis), formerly known as Long-billed Greenbul and sometimes as Common Tetraka or Long-billed Tetraka, is a songbird species endemic to Madagascar. It was initially considered a greenbul, and later with the Old World warblers. Recent research indicates it is part of an endemic Malagasy radiation currently known as the Malagasy warblers, which have not received a scientific name yet[2].

This is at present the only species remaining in the genus Bernieria. Its presumed relatives are not as closely related as was once believed and have been restored to the old genus Xanthomixis.[2]

Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Common Tetraka. Internet Bird Collection. Accessed 31 July 2010.
  2. ^ a b Cibois et al. (2001)

References

  • BirdLife International (2004). Bernieria madagascariensis. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 10 July 2007.
  • Cibois, Alice; Slikas, Beth; Schulenberg, Thomas S. & Pasquet, Eric (2001): An endemic radiation of Malagasy songbirds is revealed by mitochondrial DNA sequence data. Evolution 55(6): 1198–1206. DOI:10.1554/0014-3820(2001)055[1198:AEROMS]2.0.CO;2
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