Biology:Purple-throated sunbird
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Nectariniidae |
| Genus: | Leptocoma |
| Species: | L. sperata
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| Leptocoma sperata (Linnaeus, 1766)
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The purple-throated sunbird (Leptocoma sperata), is a species of bird in the family Nectariniidae. Its natural habitats are lowland tropical forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests of Maratua and the Philippines .
The Van Hasselt's sunbird was previously considered conspecific.
Taxonomy
In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the purple-throated sunbird in his Ornithologie based on a specimen collected in the Philippines. He used the French name Le grimpereau pourpré des Philippines and the Latin Certhia Philippensis Purpurea.[2] Although Brisson coined Latin names, these do not conform to the binomial system and are not recognised by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature.[3] When in 1766 the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus updated his Systema Naturae for the twelfth edition, he added 240 species that had been previously described by Brisson.[3] One of these was the purple-throated sunbird. Linnaeus included a brief description, coined the binomial name Certhia sperata and cited Brisson's work.[4] Linnaeus specified the type location as the Philippines but this was subsequently restricted to Manila.[5] The specific name sperata is Latin for "bride" or "betrothed".[6] The species is now placed in the genus Leptocoma was introduced by the German ornithologist Jean Cabanis in 1850.[7]
Four subspecies are recognised:[8]
- L. s. henkei (Meyer, AB, 1884) – north Luzon
- L. s. sperata (Linnaeus, 1766) – central and south Luzon, Polillo Island, Marinduque and Catanduanes (north Philippines)
- L. s. trochilus (Salomonsen, 1953) – west, central and south Philippines (except west and south Mindanao and Sulu Archipelago)
- L. s. juliae (Tweeddale, 1877) – west and south Mindanao and Sulu Archipelago
References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2018). "Leptocoma sperata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T103795170A132195051. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T103795170A132195051.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/103795170/132195051. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ↑ Brisson, Mathurin Jacques (1760) (in French, Latin). Ornithologie, ou, Méthode contenant la division des oiseaux en ordres, sections, genres, especes & leurs variétés. 3. Paris: Jean-Baptiste Bauche. pp. 655–658, Plate 31 figs 2, 3. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35953758. The two stars (**) at the start of the section indicates that Brisson based his description on the examination of a specimen.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Allen, J.A. (1910). "Collation of Brisson's genera of birds with those of Linnaeus". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 28: 317–335.
- ↑ Linnaeus, Carl (1766) (in Latin). Systema naturae : per regna tria natura, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. 1, Part 1 (12th ed.). Holmiae (Stockholm): Laurentii Salvii. p. 186. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42946382.
- ↑ Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed (1986). Check-list of Birds of the World. 12. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 237. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14482354.
- ↑ Jobling, J.A. (2018). "Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology". in del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J. et al.. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. https://www.hbw.com/dictionary/definition/sperata-speratus. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
- ↑ Cabanis, Jean; Heine, Ferdinand (1850) (in German, Latin). Museum Heineanum : Verzeichniss der ornithologischen Sammlung des Oberamtmann Ferdinand Heine, auf Gut St. Burchard vor Halberstadt. 1. Halberstadt: R. Frantz. p. 104. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49584483.
- ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds (2018). "Dippers, leafbirds, flowerpeckers, sunbirds". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/dippers/. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
- Rasmussen, P.C., and J.C. Anderton. 2005. Birds of South Asia. The Ripley guide. Volume 2: attributes and status. Smithsonian Institution and Lynx Edicions, Washington D.C. and Barcelona.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q1591908 entry
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