Acanthiza

Yellow thornbill Acanthiza nana, copyright Patrick K59.

Belongs within: Acanthizidae.

Acanthiza, the thornbills, is an Australasian genus of small birds with a thin, moderately long beak and commonly with olive or grey upperparts and pale underparts.

<==Acanthiza Vigors & Horsfield 1825 CC10
    |  i. s.: A. cinerea OF19
    |--+--A. lineata BKB15
    |  `--+--A. murina BKB15
    |     `--A. nana JT12
    `--+--A. chrysorrhoa (Quoy & Gaimard 1830) BKB15, WS48 [=Saxicola chrysorrhoa WS48]
       |    |--A. c. chrysorrhoa WS48
       |    |--A. c. alexanderi (Mathews 1921) (see below for synonymy) WS48
       |    |--A. c. ferdinandi (Mathews 1916) [=Geobasileus chrysorrhous ferdinandi] WS48
       |    `--A. c. multi Mathews 1912 WS48
       `--+--+--A. apicalis BKB15
          |  `--+--A. ewingii JT12
          |     `--+--A. katherina JT12
          |        `--A. pusilla (Shaw 1790) JT12, WS48 [=Motacilla pusilla WS48]
          |             |--A. p. pusilla WS48
          |             |--A. p. apicalis Gould 1847 [incl. A. pusilla dundasi Mathews 1922] WS48
          |             |--A. p. archbaldi M03
          |             |--A. p. dawsonensis M03
          |             |--A. p. diemenensis M03
          |             |--A. p. leeuwinensis Campbell 1922 [incl. A. pusilla northi Mathews 1922] WS48
          |             |--A. p. whitlocki North 1909 (see below for synonymy) WS48
          |             `--A. p. zietzi M03
          `--+--+--A. iredalei Mathews 1911 BKB15, WS48
             |  |    |--A. i. iredalei (see below for synonymy) WS48
             |  |    |--A. i. hedleyi M03
             |  |    `--A. i. rosinae M03
             |  `--A. robustirostris Milligan 1903 JT12, WS48 (see below for synonymy)
             `--+--A. uropygialis Gould 1838 BKB15, WS48
                |    |--A. u. uropygialis (see below for synonymy) WS48
                |    `--A. u. augusta Mathews 1912 [incl. A. uropygialis murchisoni Mathews 1912] WS48
                `--+--A. inornata Gould 1840 BKB15, WS48
                   |    |--A. i. inornata [incl. A. inornata submastersi Mathews 1912] WS48
                   |    `--A. i. mastersi North 1901 WS48
                   `--A. reguloides JT12
                        |--A. r. reguloides M03
                        `--A. r. squamata M03

Acanthiza chrysorrhoa alexanderi (Mathews 1921) [=Geobasileus chrysorrhous alexanderi, A. pallida Milligan 1903 (preoc.)] WS48

Acanthiza iredalei iredalei Mathews 1911 [incl. A. inornata carnarvoni Mathews 1913, Geobasileus tenuirostris uranie Campbell 1925] WS48

Acanthiza pusilla whitlocki North 1909 [incl. A. pusilla nullarborensis White 1922, A. pusilla peroni Mathews 1918] WS48

Acanthiza robustirostris Milligan 1903 JT12, WS48 [incl. Milligania robustirostris liberia Mathews 1916 WS48]

Acanthiza uropygialis uropygialis Gould 1838 [incl. Geobasilieus uropygialis moora Campbell 1922, A. uropygialis nea Mathews 1912] WS48

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[BKB15] Burleigh, J. G., R. T. Kimball & E. L. Braun. 2015. Building the avian tree of life using a large-scale, sparse supermatrix. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 84: 53–63.

[CC10] Checklist Committee (OSNZ). 2010. Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand, Norfolk and Macquarie Islands, and the Ross Dependency, Antarctica 4^th ed. Ornithological Society of New Zealand and Te Papa Press: Wellington.

[JT12] Jetz, W., G. H. Thomas, J. B. Joy, K. Hartmann & A. Ø. Mooers. 2012. The global diversity of birds in space and time. Nature 491: 444–448.

[M03] Morcombe, M. 2003. Field Guide to Australian Birds 2^nd ed. Steve Parish Publishing.

[OF19] Oliveros, C. H., D. J. Field, D. T. Ksepka, F. K. Barker, A. Aleixo, M. J. Andersen, P. Alström, B. W. Benz, E. L. Braun, M. J. Braun, G. A. Bravo, R. T. Brumfield, R. T. Chesser, S. Claramunt, J. Cracraft, A. M. Cuervo, E. P. Derryberry, T. C. Glenn, M. G. Harvey, P. A. Hosner, L. Joseph, R. T. Kimball, A. L. Mack, C. M. Miskelly, A. T. Peterson, M. B. Robbins, F. H. Sheldon, L. F. Silveira, B. T. Smith, N. D. White, R. G. Moyle & B. C. Faircloth. 2019. Earth history and the passerine superradiation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 116 (16): 7916–7925.

[WS48] Whittell, H. M., & D. L. Serventy. 1948. A systematic list of the birds of Western Australia. Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery of Western Australia, Special Publication 1: 1–126.