Biology:Rufous-breasted accentor
| Rufous-breasted accentor | |
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| From Lungthu (~11,000 ft) in Sikkim, India. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Prunellidae |
| Genus: | Prunella |
| Species: | P. strophiata
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| Binomial name | |
| Prunella strophiata (Blyth, 1843)
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The rufous-breasted accentor (Prunella strophiata) is passerine bird in the family Prunellidae, endemic to the Himalayas, descending in the winter to lower-to-middle altitudes. It is found in Afghanistan, Bhutan, Tibet, China , India , Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan .
Its natural habitat is temperate forest.
Taxonomy
The rufous-breasted accentor was described by the English zoologist Edward Blyth in 1843 from a specimen collected in Nepal. He coined the binomial name Accentor strophiatus.[2] The specific epithet strophiatus/strophiata is from Latin strophium "breast-band".[3] The rufous-breasted accentor is now placed in the genus Prunella that was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Vieillot in 1816.[4]
Two subspecies are recognised:[5]
- P. s. jerdoni (Brooks, WE, 1872) – east Afghanistan and west Himalayas
- P. s. strophiata (Blyth, 1843) – central and east Himalayas to central China and north Myanmar
References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2016). "Prunella strophiata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22718627A94589875. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22718627A94589875.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22718627/94589875. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ↑ Blyth, Edward (1843). "Mr. Blyth's monthly report for the December meeting 1842". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 12 Part 2 (143): 925–1011 [959]. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40060948.
- ↑ Jobling, J.A. (2019). "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/strophiata-strophiatus.
- ↑ Vieillot, Louis Pierre (1816) (in French). Analyse d'une Nouvelle Ornithologie Élémentaire. Paris: Deterville/self. p. 43. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9745205x/f49.image.
- ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds (2019). "Waxbills, parrotfinches, munias, whydahs, Olive Warbler, accentors, pipits". World Bird List Version 9.1. International Ornithologists' Union. https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/waxbills/.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q1060504 entry
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