Frank E. Rheindt

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Frank Erwin Rheindt (born January 26, 1977 in Heilbronn ) is a German ornithologist . His research focuses on the evolutionary and population genomics of birds, the mechanisms of speciation and differentiation and genetic introgression .

Life

Rheindt's parents Ditta and Erwin Rheindt come from Transylvania . As a high school student, Rheindt developed a keen interest in ornithology and nature conservation . He was a guide on bird exploration excursions , participated in bird mapping for the designation of nature reserves and devoted himself to bird watching in Transylvania and the Danube Delta . In 1996 he was an exchange student in Pennsylvania , where he came into contact with the non-European avifauna for the first time . From 1997 to 1998 he took part in a six-month bird exploration tour through Peru , Bolivia and Venezuela and as a research assistant in a British-Peruvian eco-research project in the Amazon basin , during which his focus increasingly turned to the ecosystems of the tropics . In 1998 he published the bird guide A Birdwatcher's Site Guide to Peru .

In 1999 Rheindt had his first stay in Indonesia . He traveled for three months in Java and the Lesser Sunda Islands and did field work in the last remaining primary forest habitats . On Wetar and Sumba he lived with the chiefs of the indigenous population. After studying biology at the University of Würzburg , his promotion to Ph.D. at the University of Melbourne in 2008 and a postdoctoral phase at the Louis Agassiz Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University , he has been an assistant professor at the Department of Life Sciences at the National University of Singapore since 2012 .

In 2010, Rheindt and James A. Eaton presented a revision of the ligament pitta, which led to the division into the three species Hydrornis guajanus , Hydrornis irena and Hydrornis schwaneri . In 2014 he was one of the first to describe Muscicapa sodhii , a taxon that is now considered a subspecies of the brown flycatcher ( Muscicapa lasturica ). 2017 he described together with Richard Schodde and Leslie Christidis subspecies Collocalia esculenta lagonoleucos and Collocalia sumbawae sumbae the Glanzkopfsalangane . Other efforts to bring first descriptions in 2017 were about Sholicola ashambuensis over Myzomela irianawidodoae and the subspecies of snake eagle Circaetus gallicus sacerdotis of the Lesser Sunda Islands. In 2019 Rheindt was part of the team that first described the Alor honey eater ( Myzomela prawiradilagae ).

In 2014 Rheindt was part of a team of scientists who rediscovered the nominate form of Jerdontimalia ( Chrysomma altirostre altirostre ) in Myanmar after 73 years.

In 2015 Rheindt, Les Christidis and Niels Krabbe raised the brown-backed olive tyrant ( Elaenia brachyptera ), which was previously considered a subspecies of the gray-cheeked olive tyrant ( Elaenia chiriquensis ), to the status of a species and named it in honor of the Belgian ornithologist Paul Coopmans Coopmans's Eleania, who died in 2007 .

In addition to his ornithological research, Rheindt is a member of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature .

In 2016, Rheindt published in collaboration with James A. Eaton, Bas van Balen and Nick W. Brickle the work Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago: Greater Sundas and Wallacea , which is one of the most comprehensive bird guides on the Indonesian avifauna and in which it is also undescribed for the first time Species of the region were listed.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rheindt, FE, and JA Eaton (2010): Biological species limits in the Banded Pitta Pitta Guajana , Forktail 26, 86-91.
  2. ↑ Rheindt, FE, Christidis, L., Norman, JA, Eaton, JA, Sadanandan, KR & 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
  3. ↑ Robin, VV, Vishnudas, CK, Gupta, P., Rheindt, FE, Hooper, DE, Ramakrishnan, U. & Reddy, S. (2017). Two new genera of songbirds represent endemic radiations from the Shola Sky Islands of the Western Ghats, India. BMC Evolutionary Biology 17
  4. ↑ Prawiradilaga, DM, Baveja, P., Suparno, Ashari, H., Ng, NSR, Gwee, CY, Verbelen, P. & Rheindt, FE (2017). A colorful new species of Myzomela honeyeater from Rote Island in eastern Indonesia. Treubia 44: 77-100.
  5. ↑ Ng, NSR, Christidis, L., Olsen, J., Norman, J. & Rheindt, FE (2017). A new subspecies of Short-toed Snake-eagle from Wallacea determined from morphological and DNA comparison. Zootaxa 4358 (2): 365-374.
  6. ↑ Mohammad Irham, Hidayat Ashari, Suparno, Colin R. Trainor, Philippe Verbelen, Meng Yue Wu, Frank E. Rheindt: A new Myzomela honeyeater (Meliphagidae) from the highlands of Alor Island, Indonesia Journal of Ornithology, October 2019. doi : 10.1007 / s10336-019-01722-2
  7. ↑ Frank E. Rheindt, Robert Tizard, Nila Pwint, Naing Lin: The rediscovery of Myanmar's Jerdon's Babbler Chrysomma altirostre altirostre. Birding Asia 22, 2014, pp. 13-15
  8. ↑ Frank E. Rheindt, Niels Krabbe, Alison KS Wee, Les Christidis: Cryptic speciation in the Lesser Elaenia Elaenia chiriquensis (Aves: Passeriformes: Tyrannidae). Zootaxa 4032 (3), 2015, pp. 251-263
personal data
SURNAME Rheindt, Frank E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rheindt, Frank Erwin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ornithologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Heilbronn