Black-chinned Robin (Poecilodryas brachyura)
About the Black-chinned Robin
The black-chinned robin (Leucophantes brachyurus) is a species of bird in the Australasian robin family Petroicidae. It is the only species placed in the genus Leucophantes. It is found in northern New Guinea where its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. The black-chinned robin was formally described in 1874 by the English zoologist Philip Sclater under the binomial name Leucophantes brachyurus. He specified the type locality as Hatam, Arfak Mountains. This was changed by Ernst Mayr in 1941 to Andai, northwestern New Guinea. It was formerly placed in the genus Poecilodryas but has now been returned to the resurrected genus Leucophantes that Sclater had originally introduced for this species. Three subspecies are recognised:
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Listed as recorded in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Buff-sided RobinPoecilodryas cerviniventrisrecording
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