Publication: A new species of Muscicapa flycatcher from Sulawesi, Indonesia
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2014-11-24
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19326203
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Mahidol University
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PLoS ONE. Vol.9, No.11 (2014)
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J. Berton C. Harris, Pamela C. Rasmussen, Ding Li Yong, Dewi M. Prawiradilaga, Dadang Dwi Putra, Philip D. Round, Frank E. Rheindt A new species of Muscicapa flycatcher from Sulawesi, Indonesia. PLoS ONE. Vol.9, No.11 (2014). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0112657 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/32965
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A new species of Muscicapa flycatcher from Sulawesi, Indonesia
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The University of Adelaide
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Michigan State University
Natural History Museum at Tring
Australian National University, Fenner School of Environment and Society
South-east Asian Biodiversity Society
Research Centre for Biology
Celebes Bird Club
Mahidol University
National University of Singapore
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Michigan State University
Natural History Museum at Tring
Australian National University, Fenner School of Environment and Society
South-east Asian Biodiversity Society
Research Centre for Biology
Celebes Bird Club
Mahidol University
National University of Singapore
Abstract
© 2014 Harris et al. The Indonesian island of Sulawesi, a globally important hotspot of avian endemism, has been relatively poorly studied ornithologically, to the extent that several new bird species from the region have been described to science only recently, and others have been observed and photographed, but never before collected or named to science. One of these is a new species of Muscicapa flycatcher that has been observed on several occasions since 1997. We collected two specimens in Central Sulawesi in 2012, and based on a combination of morphological, vocal and genetic characters, we describe the new species herein, more than 15 years after the first observations. The new species is superficially similar to the highly migratory, boreal-breeding Gray-streaked Flycatcher Muscicapa griseisticta, which winters in Sulawesi; however, the new species differs strongly from M. griseisticta in several morphological characters, song, and mtDNA. Based on mtDNA, the new species is only distantly related to M. griseisticta, instead being a member of the M. dauurica clade. The new species is evidently widely distributed in lowland and submontane forest throughout Sulawesi. This wide distribution coupled with the species' apparent tolerance of disturbed habitats suggests it is not currently threatened with extinction.