leaflitter babbler
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| genus = Pellorneum
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The leaflitter babbler (Pellorneum poliogene) is a species of bird in the ground babbler family Pellorneidae that is found in northern and central Borneo. It was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the short-tailed babbler, now renamed the mourning babbler (Pellorneum malaccense).
Taxonomy
The leaflitter babbler was formally described in 1849 by the English naturalist Hugh Edwin Strickland based on a specimen collected in Borneo. He placed it with the shortwings in the genus Brachypteryx and coined the binomial name Brachypteryx poliogenis.{{ cite book | last=Strickland | first=Hugh Edwin | author-link=Hugh Edwin Strickland | year=1849 | chapter=Notes on several species of birds from Malacca | title=Contributions to Ornithology for 1848-1853 | location=Edinburgh | publisher=W.H. Lizars | page="93-21", Plate 31 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51703094 }}{{ cite book | editor1-last=Mayr | editor1-first=Ernst | editor1-link=Ernst Mayr | editor2-last=Paynter | editor2-first=Raymond A. Jr | year=1964 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=10 | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology | location=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=251 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14486440 }} The specific epithet combines the Ancient Greek polios meaning "grey" and genus meaning "cheek".{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=312 | url=https://archive.org/stream/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling#page/n312/mode/1up }} The leaflitter babbler is now placed in the genus Pellorneum that was introduced in 1832 by the English naturalist William Swainson. It was formerly treated as a subspecies of the short-tailed babbler (renamed the mourning babbler) (Pellorneum malaccense) but based on vocal and genetic differences it is now treated as a separate species and is considered to be monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela C. Rasmussen | date=December 2023 | title=Babblers, scimitar babblers, ground babblers, Alcippe fulvettas | work=IOC World Bird List Version 14.1 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/babblers/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=30 January 2024}}{{Cite journal | last1=Garg | first1=K.M. | last2=Chattopadhyay | first2=B. | last3=Cros | first3=E. | last4=Tomassi | first4=S. | last5=Benedick | first5=S. | last6=Edwards | first6=D.P. | last7=Rheindt | first7=F.E. | date=2022 | title=Island biogeography revisited: museomics reveals affinities of Shelf Island birds determined by bathymetry and paleo-rivers, not by distance to mainland | journal=Molecular Biology and Evolution | volume=39 | issue=1 | pages=msab340 | doi=10.1093/molbev/msab340 | doi-access=free | pmid=34893875 | pmc=8789277 }}
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Category:Endemic birds of Borneo
Category:Birds described in 1849