Flores flowerpecker

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Flores flowerpecker
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Dicaeidae
Genus: Dicaeum
Species:
D. rhodopygiale
Binomial name
Dicaeum rhodopygiale
Rensch, 1928

The Flores flowerpecker (Dicaeum rhodopygiale) is a species of passerine bird in the flowerpecker family Dicaeidae that is found in mountainous regions of the Indonesian island of Flores, one of the Lesser Sunda Islands. Its natural habitats is subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. It was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the blood-breasted flowerpecker, now renamed the Javan flowerpecker.

Taxonomy

The Flores flowerpecker was formally described in 1928 by the German ornithologist Bernhard Rensch from a specimen collected at an altitude on 1,200 m (3,900 ft) near Lake Ranamese on the Indonesian island of Flores. He considered it to be a subspecies of the blood-breasted flowerpecker (now the Javan flowerpecker) and coined the trinomial name Dicaeum sanguinolentum rhodopygiale. [2] [3] The specific epithet combines the Ancient Greek ῥοδον/rhodon meaning "rose" with -πυγιος/-pugios meaning "-rumped". [4] The Flores flowerpecker is now considered as a separate species based on the differences in plumage and vocalizations. The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised. [5]

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References

  1. BirdLife International (2022). "Dicaeum rhodopygiale". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2022: e.T216915953A217427894. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-2.RLTS.T216915953A217427894.en . Retrieved 27 December 2024.
  2. Rensch, Bernhard (1928). "Neue Vogelrassen von den Kleinen Sunda-Inseln III. Aus den Ergebnissen der Sunda-Expedition" (PDF). Ornithologische Monatsberichte (in German). 36 (3): 80–81.
  3. Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1986). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 12. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 194.
  4. Jobling, James A. "rhodopygiale". The Key to Scientific Names. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Retrieved 27 December 2024.
  5. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2024). "Dippers, leafbirds, flowerpeckers, sunbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 14.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 27 December 2024.