Eutrichomyias rowleyi Meyer, 1878
Caerulean paradise-flycatcher; Cerulean paradise-flycatcher; Cerulean paradise flycatcher
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 1878
Rediscovered in 3 October 1998
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered
Before it's official rediscovery, at least two trained ornithologists claimed to have seen the bird: M. D. Bruce in December 1978 (White & Bruce 1986); and J. O. H. Small on 11 September 1995 (Riley, 1997).
Distribution
Sangihe islands, Indonesia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Meyer, A. B. (1878) Description of two species of birds from the Malay Archipelago. Rowley’s Orn. Misc. 3: 163-165.
Other references:
Bashari, Hanom, Fauzan, Panji Ahmad and Lionata, Hilda. (2016). The current status of the critically endangered Caerulean Paradise-flycatcher Eutrichomyias rowleyi on Sangihe, North Sulawesi. Kukila 19: 21-29. [Abstract]
Berryman, Alex J. (2021). Sangihe’s forest birds under threat. BirdingASIA 36: 13-15.
BirdLife International. (2012). Eutrichomyias rowleyi. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 09 July 2012.
Buckner, J. C., Ellingson, R., Gold, D. A., Jones, T. L., and Jacobs, D. K. (2018). Mitogenomics supports an unexpected taxonomic relationship for the extinct diving duck Chendytes lawi and definitively places the extinct Labrador Duck. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 122, 102–109. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2017.12.008
Collar, Nigel J. and Sykes, Brian R. (2009). Lost, found and saved—OBC conservation: the next 25 years. BirdingASIA 11: 41-46.
Jønsson, Knud Andreas et al. (2018). Relicts of the lost arc: High-throughput sequencing of the Eutrichomyias rowleyi (Aves: Passeriformes) holotype uncovers an ancient biogeographic link between the Philippines and Fiji. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 120: 28-32. [Abstract]
Martin, Robert W. et al. (2022). On the edge: habitat restoration priorities for three critically endangered bird species on Sangihe, Indonesia. Restoration Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.13770
Meise, W. (1939). Eutrichomyias – novum genus Muscicapidarum. Orn. Monats. 47: 134-136.
Meyer, A. B. and Wiglesworth, L. M. (1898) The birds of Celebes and neighbouring islands. Berlin: Friedländer.
Riley, Jon. (1997). The birds of Sangihe and Talaud, North Sulawesi. Kukila 9: 3-36.
Riley, Jon and Wardill, James C. (2001). The rediscovery of the Cerulean Paradise-flycatcher Eutrichomyias rowleyi on Sangihe, Indonesia. Forktail 17: 45-55.
Scheffers, Brett R., Yong, Ding Li, Harris, J. Berton C., Giam, Xingli and Sodhi, Navjot S. (2011). The world’s rediscovered species: back from the brink? PLoS ONE 6(7): e22531. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0022531 [Supporting Information (Table S1)]
Sykes, B. (2009). OBC conservation: news update and requests for practical help. BirdingASIA 12: 107-108.
Vargas, Pablo. (2023). Exploring ‘endangered living fossils’ (ELFs) among monotypic genera of plants and animals of the world. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11: 1100503. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2023.1100503
Whitten, Tony. (2006). Cerulean Paradise-flycatcher not extinct: subject of the first cover lives. Conservation Biology 20(3): 918-920. [Abstract]
Whitten, T., Nash, S. V., Bishop, K. D. and Clayton, L. (1987). One or more extinctions from Sulawesi, Indonesia? Conservation Biology 1: 42-48. [Abstract]
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