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)

• 18 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 viewReference 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 viewReference 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. 

2011

• Christidis L., Irestedt, M., Rowe, D., Boles, W.E. Norman, J.A. 2011. Mitochondrial and nuclear DNA phylogenies reveal a complex evolutionary history in the Australasian robins (Passeriformes: Petroicidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61(3): 726–738. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.08.014 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 DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3560.1.6 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.