The hooded monarch (''Symposiachrus manadensis'') is a species of
bird in the family
Monarchidae
The monarchs (family Monarchidae) comprise a family of over 100 passerine birds which includes shrikebills, paradise flycatchers, and magpie-larks.
Monarchids are small insectivorous songbirds with long tails. They inhabit forest or woodland a ...
.
It is found on
New Guinea. Its natural
habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland
forests.
Taxonomy and systematics
The hooded monarch was
described by the French zoologists
Jean Quoy and
Joseph Gaimard in 1832 from a specimen which they mistakenly claimed had been collected in
Manado on the island of Célèbes (now
Sulawesi
Sulawesi (), also known as Celebes (), is an island in Indonesia. One of the four Greater Sunda Islands, and the world's eleventh-largest island, it is situated east of Borneo, west of the Maluku Islands, and south of Mindanao and the Sulu Ar ...
). They coined the
binomial name
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...
, ''Muscicapa manadensis''. In 1941 the
type locality
Type locality may refer to:
* Type locality (biology)
* Type locality (geology)
See also
* Local (disambiguation)
* Locality (disambiguation)
{{disambiguation ...
was redesignated as
Manokwari in
New Guinea.
The hooded monarch was originally described in the genus ''
Muscicapa
''Muscicapa'' is a genus of passerine birds belonging to the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae, and therein to the typical flycatchers of subfamily Muscicapinae. They are widespread across Europe, Africa and Asia with most species o ...
'' and then placed in ''
Monarcha
''Monarcha'' is a genus of bird in the family Monarchidae. They are found in Australia and Melanesia.
Taxonomy and systematics
The genus ''Monarcha'' was introduced by naturalists Nicholas Vigors and Thomas Horsfield in 1827 with the black-f ...
'' until moved to ''Symposiachrus'' in 2009.
Alternate names include the
black-and-white monarch, black-and-white monarch flycatcher and white-bellied monarch.
Notes
References
hooded monarch
Birds of New Guinea
hooded monarch
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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