Biology:Victorin's warbler
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Short description: Species of bird
| Victorin's warbler | |
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| Painted by Joseph Wolf, 1866 | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Macrosphenidae |
| Genus: | Cryptillas Oberholser, 1899 |
| Species: | C. victorini
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| Binomial name | |
| Cryptillas victorini (Sundevall, 1860)
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Victorin's warbler (Cryptillas victorini) or Victorin's scrub warbler, is a species of African warbler, formerly placed in the family Sylviidae. It was recently split from the genus Bradypterus and now belongs to a monotypic genus Cryptillas.
It is endemic to the fynbos of South Africa 's coastal Afromontane area.
The common name and scientific name commemorates Johan Fredrik Victorin (1831-1855), a Swedish traveler who visited South Africa .[2]
References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2016). "Cryptillas victorini". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22714510A94419112. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22714510A94419112.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22714510/94419112. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. p. 352.
- BirdLife International 2004. Bradypterus victorini. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 10 July 2007.
External links
- Victorin's warbler - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.
Wikidata ☰ Q2225310 entry
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