The Karimui owlet-nightjar (Aegotheles terborghi) is a species of bird in the owlet-nightjar family Aegothelidae. It is found in montane eastern New Guinea.
| Karimui owlet-nightjar | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Strisores |
| Order: | Aegotheliformes |
| Family: | Aegothelidae |
| Genus: | Aegotheles |
| Species: | A. terborghi
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| Binomial name | |
| Aegotheles terborghi Diamond, 1967
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It was formally described in 1967 by the American scientist Jared Diamond based on a single specimen that had been collected in the Karimui basin of the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. He classified the specimen as a subspecies of the barred owlet-nightjar and coined the trinomial name Aegotheles bennettii terborghi. The specific epithet was chosen to honour the co-discoverer of the bird, the American ecologist John Terborgh.[1]
An mRNA analysis of the owlet-nightjars published in 2003 found that the Karimui owlet-nightjar was more closely related to the Vogelkop owlet-nightjar (Aegotheles affinis) than it was to the barred owlet-nightjar.[2] It was only known from the type specimen until it was rediscovered in 2016.[3] It is now treated as a distinct species.[4]
References
edit- ^ Diamond, Jared M. (1967). "New subspecies and records of birds from the Karimui Basin, New Guinea". American Museum Novitates. 2284: 1–17.
- ^ Dumbacher, J.P.; Pratt, T.K.; Fleischer, R.C. (2003). "Phylogeny of the owlet-nightjars (Aves: Aegothelidae) based on mitochondrial DNA sequence". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 29 (3): 540–549. doi:10.1016/S1055-7903(03)00135-0.
- ^ Lagerqvist, M.; Banwell, A.; McNeill, R. (2017). "First field observation of Karimui Owlet-Nightjar Aegotheles bennettii terborghi". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 137 (2): 95–99. doi:10.25226/bboc.v137i2.2017.a7.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2024). "Owlet-nightjars, treeswifts, swifts". IOC World Bird List Version 14.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 30 August 2024.
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