Cyornis

Mlíkovský, Jiří, 2011, Nomenclatural notes on Cyornis and Rhinomyias flycatchers (Aves: Muscicapidae) of South-East Asia, Zootaxa 2985, pp. 64-68 : 66

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.201827
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6187509
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scientific name	Cyornis
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Cyornis View in CoL flycatchers

Within Cyornis unicolor Blyth, 1843 View in CoL , populations inhabiting the Malay Peninsula and Greater Sunda Islands are recognized at the subspecific level ( Watson et al. 1986; Dickinson 2003; Clement 2006b). This form was first known under the name cyanopolia (e.g. Salvadori 1874; Hume 1879: 59), but subsequent authors followed either Hartert (1902) in calling it infuscata (e.g. Gyldenstolpe 1920; Baker 1921; Gibson-Hill 1949; Smythies 1960; Wolters 1980; Watson et al. 1986; Dickinson et al. 2002; LeCroy 2008; Quaisser 2010), or Robinson and Kinnear (1928) in calling it harterti (e.g. Meyer de Schauensee 1928, 1934; Chasen 1935; Stresemann & de Schauensee 1936; Deignan 1963; van Marle & Voous 1988; Dickinson 2003; Clement 2006b). As shown above, infuscata of Hartert (1902) never did exist and harterti of Robinson and Kinnear (1928) is not available for nomenclatural purposes. Cyornis cyanopolia having been treated as a valid name for a flycatcher species by Salvadori (1874: 132), the form thus should be known as Cyornis unicolor cyanopolia Blyth, 1870 , as it was during first three decades of its scientific existence.

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