Biology:Platysteira
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Platysteira is a genus of birds in the wattle-eye family Platysteiridae that are found in tropical Africa.
Taxonomy
The genus Platysteira was introduced in 1830 by the English naturalists William Jardine and Prideaux John Selby.[1] The name combines the Ancient Greek πλατυς/platus meaning "broad" with στειρα/steira meaning "ship's keel".[2] Jardine and Selby did not specify a type species but in 1840 the English zoologist George Gray designated the type as Muscicapa melanoptera Gmelin, 1789.[3] This is a junior synonym of Muscicapa cyanea, Müller, PLS, 1776, the brown-throated wattle-eye.[4]
The genus contains the following eight species:[5]
- Brown-throated wattle-eye, Platysteira cyanea – west and central Africa
- White-fronted wattle-eye, Platysteira albifrons – lowlands and escarpment of western Angola and adjacent southwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Black-throated wattle-eye, Platysteira peltata – central, east and southeast Africa
- Banded wattle-eye, Platysteira laticincta – Bamenda Mountains (western Cameroon)
- Red-cheeked wattle-eye, Platysteira blissetti – humid forest of Guinea and southern Sierra Leone to southern Cameroon
- Black-necked wattle-eye, Platysteira chalybea – humid forest of southern Cameroon and Gabon; Bioko
- Jameson's wattle-eye, Platysteira jamesoni – eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, far southern South Sudan, Uganda, western Kenya, and far northwestern Tanzania
- Yellow-bellied wattle-eye, Platysteira concreta – west and central Africa
References
- ↑ Jardine, William; Selby, Prideaux John (1830). Illustrations of Ornithology. 2. Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars. Part 7. Addenda, p. 2. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39770165. Issued in parts. For the publication date see: Zimmer, John T. (1926). "Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library". Field Museum of Natural History, Zoology Series 16 (1): 322-324. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36194975.
- ↑ Jobling, James A.. "Platysteira". The Key to Scientific Names. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/key-to-scientific-names/search?q=Platysteira.
- ↑ Gray, George Robert (1840). A List of the Genera of Birds : with an Indication of the Typical Species of Each Genus. London: R. and J.E. Taylor. p. 31. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13668925.
- ↑ Dickinson, E.C.; Christidis, L., eds (2014). The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 2: Passerines (4th ed.). Eastbourne, UK: Aves Press. p. 210. ISBN 978-0-9568611-2-2. https://www.avespress.com/uploads/downloads/278/file/HM4_2.pdf#page=264.
- ↑ AviList Core Team (2025). "AviList: The Global Avian Checklist, v2025". doi:10.2173/avilist.v2025. http://www.avilist.org/checklist/v2025/.
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