Geelvink cicadabird

The Geelvink cicadabird (Edolisoma meyerii) is a passerine bird in the family Campephagidae that is found on the islands of Numfor and Biak in the Geelvink Bay of New Guinea. It was formerly considered to be conspecific with the common cicadabird, now renamed the Sahul cicadabird.

Geelvink cicadabird
Conservation status
Not evaluated (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Campephagidae
Genus:	Edolisoma
Species:	E. meyerii
Binomial name
Edolisoma meyerii Salvadori, 1878

Taxonomy

The Geelvink cicadbird was formally described in 1878 by the Italian zoologist Tommaso Salvadori based on a specimen collected on the island of Biak in the Geelvink Bay of New Guinea. He coined the binomial name Edolisoma meyerii where the specific epithet was chosen to honour the German physician Adolf Bernhard Meyer.^[1][2][3] The Geelvink cicadbird was formerly treated as conspecific with the common cicadabird (now renamed the Sahul cicadabird) (Edolisoma tenuirostre) but has been elevated to species status based on plumage differences and a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2018.^[4][5]

Two subspecies are recognised:^[4]

• E. m. numforanum (Peters, JL & Mayr, 1960) – Numfor (Geelvink Bay Islands, northwest New Guinea)
• E. m. meyerii Salvadori, 1878 – Biak (Geelvink Bay Islands, northwest New Guinea)