Javan leafbird
| Javan leafbird | |
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| Female | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Chloropseidae |
| Genus: | Chloropsis |
| Species: | C. cochinchinensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Chloropsis cochinchinensis (Gmelin, JF, 1789)
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The Javan leafbird (Chloropsis cochinchinensis) is a species of leafbird found in forest and second growth in Java. It was formerly considered as conspecific with the widespread blue-winged leafbird.
Taxonomy
[edit ]The Javan leafbird was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae . He placed it with the thrushes in the genus Turdus and coined the binomial name Turdus cochinchinensis.[2] [3] Gmelin based his account on "Le verdin de la Cochinchine" that had been described in 1775 by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in his multi-volume work Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux.[4] A hand-coloured engraving by François-Nicolas Martinet was published separately to accompany Buffon's text.[5] Cochinchina is a historical name for Vietnam. The Javan leafbird is now one of 12 leafbirds placed in the genus Chloropsis that was introduced in 1827 by William Jardine & Prideaux Selby. It was formerly considered to be conspecific with the blue-winged leafbird (Chloropsis moluccensis).[6]
Status
[edit ]The species is endangered largely due to overexploitation for the Asian songbird trade. Although leafbirds were a moderately popular choice of cage birds for many years, the popularity of leafbirds skyrocketed in recent years after the greater green leafbird (C. sonnerati) became exceptionally sought-after. As the Javan leafbird is a primarily lowland-dwelling species, it is at high risk of severe overexploitation as its entire range is accessible to trappers. There have been reports of loss of C. cochinchinensis from previously-occupied sites while the habitat remains unchanged, indicating the risks that trapping poses to the species.[7]
References
[edit ]- ^ BirdLife International (2019). "Chloropsis cochinchinensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2019. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
- ^ Gmelin, Johann Friedrich (1789). Systema naturae per regna tria naturae : secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis (in Latin). Vol. 1, Part 2 (13th ed.). Lipsiae [Leipzig]: Georg. Emanuel. Beer. p. 825.
- ^ Mayr, Ernst; Greenway, James C. Jr, eds. (1960). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 9. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 304.
- ^ Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de (1775). "Le verdin de la Cochinchine". Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux (in French). Vol. 3. Paris: De l'Imprimerie Royale. p. 409.
- ^ Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de; Martinet, François-Nicolas; Daubenton, Edme-Louis; Daubenton, Louis-Jean-Marie (1765–1783). "e verdin de la Cochinchine". Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle. Vol. 7. Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale. Plate 643, Fig. 3.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2023). "Dippers, leafbirds, flowerpeckers, sunbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 13.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
- ^ BirdLife International (2019). "Chloropsis cochinchinensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2019. Retrieved 27 May 2021.