Indonesian serin

Indonesian serin
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Fringillidae
Subfamily: Carduelinae
Genus: Chrysocorythus
Species:
C. estherae
Binomial name
Chrysocorythus estherae
(Finsch, 1902)
Synonyms

Crithagra Estherae Finsch, 1902

The Indonesian serin (Chrysocorythus estherae) is a species of finch in the family Fringillidae.

It is found in Indonesia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forest and subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland.

The Indonesian serin was formerly placed in the genus Serinus but a phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial DNA sequences found that the species was not closely related to other member of Serinus nor to the geographically nearest finch, the Vietnamese greenfinch but to the European Goldfinch Carduelis carduelis and to the Citril Finch Carduelis citrinella.[2] The species was therefore assigned to a separate genus Chrysocorythus, a name that had previously been proposed by the German ornithologist Hans Edmund Wolters in 1967.[3][4]

The Mindanao serin (C. mindanensis) of Mindanao was formerly considered conspecific, together called the mountain serin, but was split as a distinct species by the IOC in 2021.[5]

The Indonesian serin is polytypic with four subspecies, including the nominate subspecies of western Java.[6] The other races include:

  • Chrysocorythus estherae vanderbilti (Meyer de Schauensee, 1939) (including Serinus estherae ripleyi Chasen, 1939). Sumatra.
  • Chrysocorythus estherae orientalis (Chasen, 1940) (including the replacement name Serinus estherae chaseni[7]). Tengger range, eastern Java.
  • Chrysocorythus estherae renatae (Schuchmann & Wolters, 1982). Mount Rantekombola, Sulawesi.[8]


Indonesian serin, Chrysocorythus estherae.

There are also outstanding records of an unusual taxon of this species in Lore Lindu National Park, northern Central Sulawesi.[9]


References

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Serinus estherae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T103764840A94664329. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
  2. ^ Zuccon, Dario; Prŷs-Jones, Robert; Rasmussen, Pamela C.; Ericson, Per G.P. (2012). "The phylogenetic relationships and generic limits of finches (Fringillidae)" (PDF). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 62 (2): 581–596. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2011.10.002. PMID 22023825. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-09-26. Retrieved 2015-06-12.
  3. ^ Wolters, H.E. (1967). "Über einige asiatische Carduelinae". Bonner zoologische Beiträge (in German). 18: 169–172.
  4. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David (eds.). "Finches, euphonias". World Bird List Version 5.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
  5. ^ "Species Updates – IOC World Bird List". Retrieved 2021-06-13.
  6. ^ Check-list of Birds of the World. Subfamily Carduelinae. (Howell, Paynter & Rand). 1968 (14:231).
  7. ^ Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 129(1):63
  8. ^ Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 102(1):12--13. 1982.
  9. ^ Ottaviani, M. (2018). Is the subspecies of Mountain Serin Chrysocorythus estherae from Lore Lindu National Park, northern Central Sulawesi province, Indonesia, an undescribed taxon? BirdingASIA 30: 54-59. https://www.orientalbirdclub.org/birdingasia-30


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