Indochinese blue flycatcher

The Indochinese blue flycatcher (Cyornis sumatrensis) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is found from southern Myanmar and the Malay Peninsula to Indochina and northeastern Sumatra. It was previously considered conspecific with Tickell's blue flycatcher.

Indochinese blue flycatcher
Male, Thailand

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Muscicapidae
Genus: Cyornis
Species:
C. sumatrensis
Binomial name
Cyornis sumatrensis
(Sharpe, 1879)

The species shows regional variations in plumage and size and several of these populations have been designated with subspecies names. The population in Thailand and southern Myanmar is named as indochina. Further south is the form sumatrensis (Sumatra Island, Malay Peninsula) and lamprus on Anamba Islands.[2][3]

A species of feather mite Proterothrix cyornis has been described from an Indochinese blue flycatcher from Vietnam.[4]

References

  1. BirdLife International 2016. Cyornis sumatrensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T103761859A104350203. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T103761859A104350203.en. Downloaded on 28 June 2019.
  2. Baker, E. C. Stuart (1924). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Birds. Volume 2. London, UK: Taylor and Francis. pp. 234–236.
  3. Robinson H.C. & N.B. Kinnear (1928). "Notes on the Genus Cyornis Blyth". Novitates Zoologicae. 34: 231–261.
  4. Mironov, S.V.; Tolstenkov, O.O. (2013). "Three new feather mites of the subfamily Pterodectinae (Acari: Proctophyllodidae) from Passerines (Aves: Passeriformes) in Vietnam". Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS. 317 (1): 11–29.


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