Les Christidis

Les Christidis, Australian ornithologist

National Marine Science Centre, Southern Cross University, Coffs Harbour, NSW Australia 2450

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

15 taxon names authored by Les Christidis

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2004

Driskell, A.C. & Christidis, L. 2004. Phylogeny and evolution of the Australo-Papuan honeyeaters (Passeriformes, Meliphagidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 31(3): 943–960. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2003.10.017 Reference page.
Christidis, L., Longmore, N.W., O’Brien, R. (2004): Extinct species. In: Treasures of the museum. (Ed: Cosgrove, Bryony) Museum Victoria, Melbourne, 175-177. Reference page.

2007

Driskell, A., Christidis, L., Gill, B.J., Boles, W.E., Barker, F.K. & Longmore, N.W. 2007. A new endemic family of New Zealand passerine birds: adding heat to a biodiversity hotspot. Australian Journal of Zoology 55(2): 73–78. DOI: 10.1071/ZO07007 Reference page.

2008

Rheindt, F. E., Christidis, L., & Norman, J.A. 2008a. Habitat shifts in the evolutionary history of a Neotropical flycatcher lineage from forest and open landscapes. BMC Evolutionary Biology 8: 193 (18 pp.). DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-193 Full article view Reference page.
Rheindt, F.E., Norman, J.A. & Christidis, L. 2008b. DNA evidence shows vocalizations to be better indicator of taxonomic limits than plumage patterns in Zimmerius tyrant-flycatchers. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 48:150-156. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.04.016Reference page.
Rheindt, F.E., Norman, J.A. & Christidis, L. 2008c. Genetic differentiation across the Andes in two pan-Neotropical tyrant-flycatcher species. Emu 108: 261–268. DOI: 10.1071/MU08020 Full article view Reference page.
Rheindt, F.E., Norman, J.A. & Christidis, L. 2008. Phylogenetic relationships of tyrant-flycatchers (Aves: Tyrannidae), with an emphasis on the elaeniine assemblage. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 46(1): 88–101. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2007.09.011 Reference page.
Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Canberra: CSIRO Publishing. pp. 187–91. ISBN 978-0-643-06511-6. Book title page Reference page.
Jønsson, K.A., Irestedt, M., Fuchs, J., Ericson, P.G.P, Christidis, L., Bowie, R.C.K. Norman, J.A., Pasquet, E. & Fjeldså, J. 2008. Explosive avian radiations and multi-directional dispersal across Wallacea: Evidence from the Campephagidae and other crown Corvida (Aves). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 47(1): 221–236. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.01.017 Reference page.

2009

Rheindt, F. E., Christidis, L., & Norman, J.A. 2009. Genetic introgression, incomplete lineage sorting and faulty taxonomy create multiple cases of polyphyly in a montane clade of tyrant-flycatchers (Elaenia, Tyrannidae). Zoologica Scripta 38: 143-153. DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2008.00369.x Abstract Reference page.
Rheindt, F.E., Christidis, L., Cabanne, G.S., Miyaki, C. & Norman, J.A. 2009. The timing of Neotropical speciation dynamics: a reconstruction of Myiopagis flycatcher diversification using phylogenetic and paleogeographic data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 53(3): 961–971. Full article (PDF) DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.09.001Reference page.
Norman, J.A., Ericson, P.G.P., Jønsson, K.A., Fjeldså, J. & Christidis, L. 2009b. A multi-gene phylogeny reveals novel relationships for aberrant genera of Australo-Papuan core Corvoidea and polyphyly of the Pachycephalidae and Psophodidae (Aves: Passeriformes). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 52(2): 488–497. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.03.019 Reference page.

2010

Jønsson, K.A, Bowie, R.C.K., Nylander, J.A.A, Christidis, L., Norman, J.A & Fjeldså, J. 2010. Biogeographical history of cuckoo-shrikes (Aves: Passeriformes): transoceanic colonization of Africa from Australo-Papua. Journal of Biogeography 37(9): 1767–1781 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02328.x Full article Reference page.
Jønsson, K.A., Bowie, R.C.K., Moyle, R.G., Christidis, L., Norman, J.A., Benz, B.W. & Fjeldså, J. 2010. Historical biogeography of an Indo-Pacific passerine bird family (Pachycephalidae): different colonization patterns in the Indonesian and Melanesian archipelagos. Journal of Biogeography 37: 245–257. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2009.02220.x Reference page.

2012

Christidis, L., Irestedt, M., Rowe, D., Boles, W.E. & Norman, J.A. 2012. Circumscription, diagnosis and description of two subfamilies and one genus of Australo-Papuan robins (Aves: Passeriformes: Petroicidae). Zootaxa 3560: 87–88. Preview PDF Reference page.

2013

Schodde, R., Boles, W., Christidis, L., Horton, P., Johnstone, R.E., Joseph, L., Longmore, W. (2013). Case 3630 corcoracidae Mathews, 1927 (Aves) and the spelling melanorhamphos Vieillot, 1817 for the valid name of the type species of its type genus: proposed conservation of usage. The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 70 (4): 238–244. DOI: 10.21805/bzn.v70i4.a8 Reference page.
Christidis L., Rheindt, F.E., Boles, W.E. & Norman, J.A. 2013. A re-appraisal of species diversity within the Australian grasswrens Amytornis (Aves: Maluridae). Australian Zoologist 36: 429–437. DOI: 10.7882/AZ.2013.004 ResearchGate Reference page.

2014

Schodde, R. & Christidis, L. 2014. Relicts from Tertiary Australasia: undescribed families and subfamilies of songbirds (Passeriformes) and their zoogeographic signal. Zootaxa 3786(5): 501–522. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3786.5.1 Reference page.
Jønsson, K.A., Irestedt, M., Christidis, L., Clegg, S.M., Holt, B.G. & Fjeldså, J. 2014. Evidence of taxon cycles in an Indo-Pacific passerine bird radiation (Aves: Pachycephala). Proceedings of the Royal Society B 281(1777): 20131727. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.1727 ResearchGate Reference page.
Aggerbeck M., Fjeldså, J., Christidis, L., Fabre, P.-H. & Jønsson, K.A.. 2014. Resolving deep lineage divergences in core corvoid passerine birds supports a proto-Papuan island origin. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 70: 272–285. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2013.09.027 Reference page.

2015

Rheindt, F.E., Krabbe, N., Wee, A.K.S. & Christidis, L. 2015. Cryptic speciation in the Lesser Elaenia Elaenia chiriquensis (Aves: Passeriformes: Tyrannidae). Zootaxa 4032(3): 251–263. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4032.3.1. Full article (PDF) Reference page.

2017

Lerner, H., Christidis, L., Gamauf, A., Griffiths, C.L., Haring, E., Huddleston, C.J., Kabra, S., Kocum, A., Krosby, M., Kvaløy, K., Mindell, D.P., Rasmussen, P.C., Røv, N., Wadleigh, R., Wink, M. & Gjershaug, J.O. 2017. Phylogeny and new taxonomy of the Booted Eagles (Accipitriformes: Aquilinae). Zootaxa 4216(4): 301–320. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4216.4.1. Full article (PDF) Reference page.
Ng, N.S.R., Christidis, L., Olsen, J., Norman, J.A. & Rheindt, F.E. 2017. A new subspecies of Short-toed Snake-eagle from Wallacea determined from morphological and DNA comparison. Zootaxa 4358(2): 365–374. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4358.2.9. Reference page.
Rheindt, F.E., Christidis, L., Norman, J.A., Eaton, J.A., Sadanandan, K.R. & Schodde, R. 2017. Speciation in Indo-Pacific swiftlets (Aves: Apodidae): integrating molecular and phenotypic data for a new provisional taxonomy of the Collocalia esculenta complex. Zootaxa 4250(5): 401–433. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4250.5.1. Reference page.
Gwee, C.Y., Christidis, L., Eaton, J.A., Norman, J.A., Trainor, C.R., Verbelen, P. & Rheindt, F.A. 2017. Bioacoustic and multi-locus DNA data of Ninox owls support high incidence of extinction and recolonisation on small, low-lying islands across Wallacea. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2016.12.024 109: 246–258 Reference page.

2018

Norman, J.A., Christidis, L. & Schodde, R. 2018. Ecological and evolutionary diversification in the Australo-Papuan scrubwrens (Sericornis) and mouse-warblers (Crateroscelis), with a revision of the subfamily Sericornithinae (Aves: Passeriformes: Acanthizidae). Organisms Diversity & Evolution 18(2): 241–259 DOI: 10.1007/s13127-018-0364-8 ResearchGate Reference page.

2020

Fjeldså, J., Christidis, L. & Ericson, P.G.P. (Editors). 2020. The Largest Avian Radiation. The Evolution of Perching Birds, or the Order Passeriformes. Lynx Ediciones. Barcelona. 445 p.; ill.; index. ISBN 978-84-16728-33-6 Summary Reference page.