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)

(List may be incomplete)

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Schodde, R., Boles, W., Christidis, L., Horton, P., Johnstone, R., 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. Bull. Zool. Nomen. 70 (4): 238–244. DOI: 10.21805/bzn.v70i4.a8 Reference page.

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.

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.

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.