Radde's accentor
Appearance
Radde's accentor | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Prunellidae |
Genus: | Prunella |
Species: | P. ocularis
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Binomial name | |
Prunella ocularis (Radde, 1884)
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Synonyms | |
Accentor ocularis |
Radde's accentor (Prunella ocularis) is a species of bird in the family Prunellidae. It is found in mountainous parts of Yemen and northern Southwest Asia.
Its natural habitat is temperate grassland.
Taxonomy
[edit]Radde's accentor was described by the German naturalist Gustav Radde in 1884 from a specimen collected in the Talysh Mountains near the Azerbaijan-Iran border. He coined the binomial name Accentor ocularis.[2] It is now placed in the genus Prunella that was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816.[3] The species is monotypic.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ BirdLife International (2018). "Prunella ocularis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T105986083A132202942. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T105986083A132202942.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ Radde, Gustav (1884). Ornis Caucasica. Die Vogelwelt des Kaukasus systematisch und biologischgepgraphisch bescrieben (in German). pp. 33, 244-245, pl. 14.
- ^ Vieillot, Louis Pierre (1816). Analyse d'une Nouvelle Ornithologie Élémentaire (in French). Paris: Deterville/self. p. 43.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Waxbills, parrotfinches, munias, whydahs, Olive Warbler, accentors, pipits". World Bird List Version 9.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 12 March 2019.
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