Biology:Louisiade white-eye

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Short description: Species of bird

Louisiade white-eye
Louisiade white-eye.jpg
on Duchess Island, D'Entrecasteaux Islands, Papua New-Guinea
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Zosteropidae
Genus: Zosterops
Species:
Z. griseotinctus
Binomial name
Zosterops griseotinctus
GR Gray, 1858

The Louisiade white-eye or islet white-eye (Zosterops griseotinctus) is a species of bird in the family Zosteropidae. It is endemic to Papua New Guinea, where it is found on widely disjunct islets on both the Bismarck and Louisiade archipelagos.[2]

Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

There are five subspecies recognized by the International Ornithological Congress:[2]

  • Z. g. ottomeyeri Stresemann, 1930 - Nauna
  • Z. g. eichhorni Hartert, 1926 - several disjunct islets in the Bismarck Archipelago
  • Z. g. griseotinctus Gray, GR, 1858 - west-central Louisiade Archipelago
  • Z. g. longirostris Ramsay, 1879 - islets east of New Guinea
  • Z. g. pallidipes De Vis, 1890 - Rossel Island

References

Wikidata ☰ Q1923538 entry