Biology:Radde's accentor

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Short description: Species of bird

Radde's accentor
Prunella ocularis 1a.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Prunellidae
Genus: Prunella
Species:
P. ocularis
Binomial name
Prunella ocularis
(Radde, 1884)
Synonyms

Accentor ocularis

Radde's accentor (Prunella ocularis) is a species of bird in the family Prunellidae. It is found in mountainous parts of Yemen and northern Southwest Asia.

Its natural habitat is temperate grassland.

Taxonomy

Radde's accentor was described by the German naturalist Gustav Radde in 1884 from a specimen collected in the Talysh Mountains near the Azerbaijan-Iran border. He coined the binomial name Accentor ocularis.[2] It is now placed in the genus Prunella that was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816.[3] The species is monotypic.[4]

References

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q1049121 entry