| Pale white-eye | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Zosteropidae |
| Genus: | Zosterops |
| Species: | Z. flavilateralis |
| Binomial name | |
| Zosterops flavilateralis Reichenow, 1892 | |
The pale white-eye also known as Kenya white-eye [2] (Zosterops flavilateralis) is a bird species in the family Zosteropidae. It is found in Kenya, eastern Tanzania, southern Ethiopia and southern Somalia.
The pale white-eye was formally described in 1892 by the German ornithologist Anton Reichenow under the current binomial name Zosterops flavilateralis. [3] [4] The specific epithet flavilateralis combines Latin flavus meaning "yellow" with lateralis meaning "of the sides". [5] The pale white-eye was formerly treated as a subspecies of the Abyssinian white-eye (Zosterops abyssinicus) but is now treated as a separate species. [6] [7] [8]
Two subspecies are recognised: [8]
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