Biology:Angola white-eye
| Angola white-eye | |
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Not evaluated (IUCN 3.1)
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Zosteropidae |
| Genus: | Zosterops |
| Species: | Z. kasaicus
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| Binomial name | |
| Zosterops kasaicus Chapin, 1932
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The Angola white-eye (Zosterops kasaicus), is a small passerine bird in the white-eye family Zosteropidae. It is found from central Democratic Republic of the Congo to northern and central Angola. It was formerly considered to be conspecific with the northern yellow white-eye.
Taxonomy
The Angola white-eye was formally described in 1932 by the American ornithologist James Chapin based on a specimen that had been collected near Luluabourg (now Kananga) in the Kasaï region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Chapin considered his specimen to be a subspecies of the forest white-eye (Zosterops stenocricotus) and coined the trinomial name Zosterops stenocricotus kasaicus.[1][2] The Angola white-eye was formerly considered to be conspecific with the northern yellow white-eye (Zosterops senegalensis). The species were split based on the results of a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2020 that found significant genetic divergence between the two species.[3][4]
Three subspecies are recognised:[3]
- Z. k. kasaicus Chapin, 1932 – central DR Congo to northeast Angola
- Z. k. heinrichi Meise, 1958 – northwest Angola
- Z. k. quanzae Meyer de Schauensee, 1933 – central Angola
References
- ↑ Chapin, James Paul (1932). "Fourteen new birds from tropical Africa". American Museum Novitates (570): 15. http://hdl.handle.net/2246/4197.
- ↑ Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed (1986). Check-list of Birds of the World. 12. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 330. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14482447.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds (August 2024). "Sylviid babblers, parrotbills, white-eyes". IOC World Bird List Version 14.2. International Ornithologists' Union. https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/sylvias/.
- ↑ Martins, F.C.; Cox, S.C.; Irestedt, M.; Prŷs-Jones, R.P.; Day, J.J. (2020). "A comprehensive molecular phylogeny of Afrotropical white-eyes (Aves: Zosteropidae) highlights prior underestimation of mainland diversity and complex colonisation history". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 149. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106843. PMID 32330543. Bibcode: 2020MolPE.14906843M.
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