Biology:Scarlet-chested sunbird
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Nectariniidae |
| Genus: | Chalcomitra |
| Species: | C. senegalensis
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| Chalcomitra senegalensis (Linnaeus, 1766)
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The scarlet-chested sunbird (Chalcomitra senegalensis) is a species of bird in the family Nectariniidae.
Range
It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eswatini, Ivory Coast, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa , Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Taxonomy
In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the scarlet-chested sunbird in his Ornithologie based on a specimen collected in Senegal. He used the French name Le grimpereau violet du Sénégal and the Latin Certhia Senegalensis Violacea.[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 scarlet-chested sunbird. Linnaeus included a brief description, coined the binomial name Certhia senegalensis and cited Brisson's work.[4] This species is now placed in the genus Chalcomitra that was introduced by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach in 1853.[5] Six subspecies are recognised.[6]
References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2018). "Chalcomitra senegalensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T22717770A131979279. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22717770A131979279.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22717770/131979279. Retrieved 11 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. 660–661, Plate 34 fig 2. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35953763. 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.
- ↑ Reichenbach, Ludwig (1853) (in German). Handbuch der Speciellen Ornithologie. 6. Dresden and Leipzig: Expedition der Vollständigsten Naturgeschichte. p. 277. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47722984.
- ↑ 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/.
External links
- Scarlet-chested sunbird - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.
Wikidata ☰ Q854678 entry
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