Biology:Schouteden's swift

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Schouteden's swift
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Clade: Strisores
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Apodidae
Genus: Schoutedenapus
Species:
S. schoutedeni
Binomial name
Schoutedenapus schoutedeni
(Prigogine, 1960)

The Schouteden's swift (Schoutedenapus schoutedeni) is a species of swift in the family Apodidae. It is endemic to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Its common name and Latin binomial commemorate the Belgian zoologist Henri Eugene Schouteden.[2]

References

  1. Template:IUCN
  2. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. p. 303. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q1260416 entry