Rhipidura [rufifrons (sensu lato) or kubaryi] (Rufous (sensu lato) or Pohnpei Fantail)

Rufous (sensu lato) or Pohnpei Fantail

Rhipidura [rufifrons (sensu lato) or kubaryi] (= Rhipidura rufifrons) (Latham, J 1801)

The rufous fantail is a small passerine bird, most commonly known also as the black-breasted rufous-fantail or rufous-fronted fantail, which can be found in Australia, Indonesia, Micronesia, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. In these countries they inhabit rainforests, wet forests, swamp woodlands and mangroves. Source: Wikipedia

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Classification

Order:
  Passeriformes
Family:
  Rhipiduridae
Genus:
   Rhipidura
Scientific:
  Rhipidura rufifrons

Original description

Citation:
(Latham, J 1801)

Reference:
Suppl. Indicis Orn.

Protonym:
Muscicapa rufifrons

Type locality:
'Nova Wallia Australi' = Sydney, New South Wales, fide Mathews, 1930, Syst. Avium Australasianarum, p. 487.

Link:
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/313412#page/56/mode/1up

Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
9DA596FDE8F89663

Avibase ID:
avibase-9DA596FD

Short link:
https://avibase.ca/9DA596FD

Taxonomic Serial Number:
TSN: 178692

Geographic range:

Rhipidura kubaryi: Pohnpei (eastern Caroline Islands)
Rhipidura rufifrons rufifrons: southeastern Australia (northeastern New South Wales to southern and central Victoria); winters to north
Rhipidura rufifrons intermedia: eastern Queensland (Cooktown to New South Wales border); winters to north
Rhipidura torrida: northern Moluccas (Halmahera, Ternate, Bacan, and Obi)
Rhipidura louisiadensis: D'Entrecasteaux and Louisiade archipelagos (off southeastern New Guinea)
Rhipidura versicolor versicolor: Yap (Caroline Islands)
Rhipidura versicolor saipanensis: Northern Mariana Islands (Saipan, Tinian, and Aguijan)
Rhipidura versicolor mariae: southernmost Northern Mariana Islands (Rota)
Rhipidura versicolor uraniae: formerly Guam (Mariana Islands); extinct
Rhipidura rufofronta rufofronta: Guadalcanal (southeastern Solomon Islands)
Rhipidura rufofronta commoda: Bougainville, Choiseul, and adjacent northern Solomon Islands
Rhipidura rufofronta granti: central Solomon Islands
Rhipidura rufofronta brunnea: Malaita (central Solomon Islands)
Rhipidura rufofronta russata: Makira (southeastern Solomon Islands)
Rhipidura rufofronta kuperi: Santa Ana (southeastern Solomon Islands)
Rhipidura rufofronta ugiensis: Ugi (southwestern Solomon Islands)
Rhipidura melanolaema melanolaema: Vanikoro (southeastern Temotu, southeastern Solomon Islands)
Rhipidura melanolaema utupuae: Utupua (central Temotu, southeastern Solomon Islands)
Rhipidura melanolaema agilis: Nendö (northern Temotu, southeastern Solomon Islands)
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Source: Clements checklist

English:
Rufous (sensu lato) or Pohnpei Fantail
French:
Rhipidure roux ou R. de Ponapé

Authorities recognizing this taxonomic concept:

Avibase taxonomic concepts (current): Rufous (sensu lato) or Pohnpei Fantail ( Rhipidura [rufifrons (sensu lato) or kubaryi])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2023 (May 2023): Rufous or Pohnpei Fantail ( Rhipidura [rufifrons or kubaryi])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2024 (Oct 2024): Rufous (sensu lato) or Pohnpei Fantail ( Rhipidura [rufifrons (sensu lato) or kubaryi])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 03 (March 2015): Rufous or Pohnpei Fantail ( Rhipidura [rufifrons or kubaryi])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 04 (Aug 2016): Rufous or Pohnpei Fantail ( Rhipidura [rufifrons or kubaryi])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 05 (Jan 2017): Rufous or Pohnpei Fantail ( Rhipidura [rufifrons or kubaryi])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 06 (Feb 2018): Rufous or Pohnpei Fantail ( Rhipidura [rufifrons or kubaryi])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 07 (Feb 2020): Rufous or Pohnpei Fantail ( Rhipidura [rufifrons or kubaryi])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 08 (Feb 2021): Rufous or Pohnpei Fantail ( Rhipidura [rufifrons or kubaryi])
Commission internationale pour les noms français des oiseaux (1993, révision 2009): Rhipidure roux ( Rhipidura rufifrons) [version 3]
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (as published): Rufous Fantail ( Rhipidura rufifrons) [version 3]
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 1.2): Rufous Fantail ( Rhipidura rufifrons) [version 3]
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 2.1): Rufous Fantail ( Rhipidura rufifrons) [version 3]
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 3.1): Rufous Fantail ( Rhipidura rufifrons) [version 3]
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 4): Rufous Fantail ( Rhipidura rufifrons) [version 3]
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 5): Rufous Fantail ( Rhipidura rufifrons) [version 3]
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 6): Rufous Fantail ( Rhipidura rufifrons) [version 3]
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 7): Rufous Fantail ( Rhipidura rufifrons) [version 3]
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 8): Rufous Fantail ( Rhipidura rufifrons) [version 3]
Howard and Moore 4th edition (vol. 1-2): Rufous Fantail ( Rhipidura rufifrons) [version 3]
Howard and Moore 4th edition (incl. corrigenda vol.1-2): Rufous Fantail ( Rhipidura rufifrons) [version 3]
Handbook of the Birds of the World (vol 1-16): Rufous Fantail ( Rhipidura rufifrons) [version 3]
Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (31/01/2015): Rufous Fantail ( Rhipidura rufifrons) [version 3]

Taxonomic status:

Species status: species (alt)

This taxon is a subspecies of Rhipidura [rufifrons (sensu lato), dryas, semicollaris, kubaryi or semirubra]

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