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Species of bird
The red-billed starling (Spodiopsar sericeus) is a species of
starling in the family
Sturnidae. It is found in south and southeastern
China.
Taxonomy
The red-billed starling was
formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist
Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of
Carl Linnaeus's
Systema Naturae. He placed it with the starlings in the
genus
Sturnus and coined the
binomial name Sturnus sericeus.
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[3] The specific epithet sericeus is
Medieval Latin meaning "silken".
[4] Gmelin based his account on the "silk starling" from China that had been described and illustrated in 1776 by the English naturalist
Peter Brown from a specimen owned by the collector
Marmaduke Tunstall.
[5]
The red-billed starling was formerly placed in the genus
Sturnus. A
molecular phylogenetic study published in 2008 found that the genus was
polyphyletic.
[6] In the reoganization to create
monotypic genera, the red-billed starling and the
white-cheeked starling were moved to the resurrected genus
Spodiopsar that had been introduced in 1889 by
Richard Bowdler Sharpe. The species is
monotypic: no
subspecies are recognised.
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References
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^ BirdLife International (2018).
"Spodiopsar sericeus".
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22710867A132091096.
doi:
10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22710867A132091096.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
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^
Gmelin, Johann Friedrich (1789).
Systema naturae per regna tria naturae : secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis (in Latin). Vol. 1, Part 2 (13th ed.). Lipsiae [Leipzig]: Georg. Emanuel. Beer. p. 805.
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^
Mayr, Ernst; Greenway, James C. Jr, eds. (1962).
Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 15. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 106.
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^ Jobling, James A. (2010).
The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 354.
ISBN
978-1-4081-2501-4.
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^
Brown, Peter (1776).
Nouvelles illustrations de zoologie : contenant cinquante planches enlumineés d'oiseaux curieux, et qui non etés jamais descrits, et quelques de quadrupedes, de reptiles et d'insectes, avec de courtes descriptions systematiques (in French and English). London: B. White. p. 48, Plate 21.
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^ Zuccon, D.; Pasquet, E.; Ericson, P.G.P. (2008). "Phylogenetic relationships among Palearctic–Oriental starlings and mynas (genera Sturnus and Acridotheres: Sturnidae)". Zoologica Scripta. 37 (5): 469–481.
doi:
10.1111/j.1463-6409.2008.00339.x.
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^
Gill, Frank; Donsker, David;
Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2023).
"Nuthatches, Wallcreeper, treecreepers, mockingbirds, starlings, oxpeckers". IOC World Bird List Version 13.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
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^ Sato, S.; Kimura, H.; Hirata, S.; Yoshiaki, O. (2010).
"A record of interspecific hybridization of the grey starling Sturnus cineraceus and the red-billed starling Sturnus sericeus in Sukumo, Kochi Prefecture". Japanese Journal of Ornithology. 59: 76–79.
doi:
10.3838/jjo.59.76.
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