The Ryukyu robin (''Larvivora komadori'') is a bird

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found els ...

to the Ryūkyū Islands, of Japan. The Okinawa robin (''Larvivora namiyei'') previously was considered a subspecies. The

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''komadori'' is, somewhat confusingly, the common name of its relative the Japanese robin in Japanese. The Ryukyu robin, together with the Japanese robin and the European robin, was previously placed in the

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'' Erithacus'' . A 2006

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study found that the two east Asian species were more similar to the Siberian blue robin, at the time in '' Luscinia'', than to the European robin. In 2010 a large study confirmed this result and also found that ''Luscinia'' was non-monophyletic. The genus '' Larvivora'' was therefore resurrected to accommodate a clade containing the Japanese robin, the Ryukyu robin, the Siberian blue robin and several other species that had previously been placed in ''Luscinia''.

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Ryukyu robin Endemic birds of Japan Endemic fauna of the Ryukyu Islands Birds of the Ryukyu Islands Ryukyu robin {{Muscicapidae-stub