Glissando babbler

The glissando babbler (Pellorneum saturatum) is a species of bird in the ground babbler family Pellorneidae. It is found on the Indonesian islands of Bangka and Belitung as well as west and southwest Borneo. It was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the short-tailed babbler, now renamed the mourning babbler (Pellorneum malaccense).

Glissando babbler
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Pellorneidae
Genus:	Pellorneum
Species:	P. saturatum
Binomial name
Pellorneum saturatum (Robinson & Kloss, 1920)

Taxonomy

The glissando babbler was formally described in 1920 by the British zoologists Herbert C. Robinson and C. Boden Kloss based on specimens collected near the Tinjar River, a tributary of the Baram River, in northern Sarawak, Malaysia. They considered it as a subspecies of the short-tailed babbler, now renamed the mourning babbler, and coined the trinomial name Anuropsis malaccensis saturata.^[1][2] The specific epithet is from Latin saturatus meaning "richly coloured".^[3] The glissando babbler has been move to the genus Pellorneum that was introduced in 1832 by the English naturalist William Swainson. Based on the vocal and genetic differences it is now treated as a separate species.^[4][5] The species is considered to be monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.^[4]

References

1. Robinson, Herbert C.; Kloss, C. Boden (1920). "Anuropsis malaccensis saturata subsp. nov". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 40: 68–69. Archived from the original on 2024-01-30. Retrieved 2024-01-30.
2. Mayr, Ernst; Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, eds. (1964). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 10. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 251. Archived from the original on 2023-12-08. Retrieved 2024-01-30.
3. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 348. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
4. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (December 2023). "Babblers, scimitar babblers, ground babblers, Alcippe fulvettas". IOC World Bird List Version 14.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Archived from the original on 30 April 2014. Retrieved 30 January 2024.
5. Garg, K.M.; Chattopadhyay, B.; Cros, E.; Tomassi, S.; Benedick, S.; Edwards, D.P.; Rheindt, F.E. (2022). "Island biogeography revisited: museomics reveals affinities of Shelf Island birds determined by bathymetry and paleo-rivers, not by distance to mainland". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 39 (1): msab340. doi:10.1093/molbev/msab340. PMC 8789277.