Common cicadabird
The common cicadabird, also known as the slender-billed cicadabird, is a species of bird in the family Campephagidae. It is found in Australia, Indonesia, New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands. Its natural habitats are temperate forest and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest. The species is placed in the reinstated genus Edolisoma by most authors. The common cicadabird was described as a "great speciator" by Mayr & Diamond and Pedersen et al. described how this species rapidly colonized and diversified across the Indo-Pacific island region and Australia in the Pleistocene.
Subspecies
Numerous subspecies have been described:
- E. t. amboiense
- E. t. aruense
- E. t. edithae
- E. t. emancipatum
- E. t. grayi
- E. t. heinrothi
- E. t. kalaotuae
- E. t. matthiae
- E. t. melvillense
- E. t. meyerii
- E. t. muellerii
- E. t. nehrkorni
- E. t. nisorium
- E. t. numforanum
- E. t. obiense
- E. t. pelingi
- E. t. pererratum
- E. t. rooki
- E. t. rostratum
- E. t. tagulanum
- E. t. tenuirostre
- E. t. timoriense
