The Sahul cicadabird (''Edolisoma tenuirostre''), previously known as the common cicadabird or slender-billed cicadabird, is a species of

passerine A passerine () is any bird of the order Passeriformes (; from Latin 'sparrow' and '-shaped') which includes more than half of all bird species. Sometimes known as perching birds, passerines generally have an anisodactyl arrangement of their ...

bird in the family Campephagidae. It is found in

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl ...

New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; , fossilized , also known as Papua or historically ) is the List of islands by area, world's second-largest island, with an area of . Located in Melanesia in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is ...

and the

Bismarck Archipelago The Bismarck Archipelago (, ) is a group of islands off the northeastern coast of New Guinea in the western Pacific Ocean and is part of the Islands Region of Papua New Guinea. Its area is about . History The first inhabitants of the archipela ...

. Its natural

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s are

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and

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. The species is placed in the reinstated genus ''Edolisoma'' by most authors. The common cicadabird was described as a "great speciator" by

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(2001); and Pedersen ''et al.'' (2018) described how this species rapidly colonized and diversified across the

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island region and

in the

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Subspecies

Six

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are recognised: * ''E. t. nehrkorni'' Salvadori, 1890 –

Waigeo Waigeo is an island in the Southwest Papua province of eastern Indonesia. The island is also known as Amberi or Waigiu. It is the largest of the four main islands in the Raja Ampat Islands archipelago, between Halmahera and about to the nort ...

(

Raja Ampat Islands Raja Ampat (), or the Four Kings, is an archipelago located off of the northwest tip of Bird's Head Peninsula (on the island of New Guinea), Southwest Papua , Southwest Papua province, Indonesia. It comprises over 1,500 small islands, cays, and sh ...

, northwest of

; known from one specimen) * ''E. t. aruense'' Sharpe, 1878 –

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(southwest of

) and southwest, central south

* ''E. t. muellerii'' Salvadori, 1876 – Kofiau and

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(

, northwest of

(except south), D'Entrecasteaux Archipelago (east of southeast

), Long (west of

New Britain New Britain () is the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago, part of the Islands Region of Papua New Guinea. It is separated from New Guinea by a northwest corner of the Solomon Sea (or with an island hop of Umboi Island, Umboi the Dampie ...

) and Sakar (north of

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, west of

; southwest

) * ''E. t. tagulanum'' Hartert, EJO, 1898 –

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and

Tagula Island Vanatinai Island (also called Tagula and Sudest, for the names of the extreme capes of the island) is a volcanic island in the southeast of the Louisiade Archipelago within Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. The reef-fringed island is approxi ...

(west, central

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, east of southeast

) * ''E. t. melvillense'' ( Mathews, 1912) – northeast

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, northeast

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(north Australia) * ''E. t. tenuirostre'' (

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, 1831) – central east

to southeast

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(east Australia) Under the name "common cicadabird" this species formerly included 21 subspecies. Based mainly on a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2018, the species was split and seven new species were recognised. The new species are: the Rossel cicadabird, Geelvink cicadabird, Banggai cicadabird, Obi cicadabird, North Moluccan cicadabird, South Moluccan cicadabird and the

Timor cicadabird The Timor cicadabird (''Edolisoma timoriense'') is a passerine bird in the family Campephagidae that is found on the islands of Lembata, Alor and Timor in Indonesia. The species was formerly considered to be conspecific with the common cicadabir ...

Gallery

File:Cicadabird male Kobble.jpg, Kobble Creek, southeast Queensland Image:Cicadabird rushck.ogg, Adult male and juvenile, Rush Creek, southeast Queensland File:Common Cicadabird - Crossroads Reserve.jpg, Crossroads Reserve, New South Wales

References

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Species factsheet
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