| Red-billed starling | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Sturnidae |
| Genus: | Spodiopsar |
| Species: | S. sericeus |
| Binomial name | |
| Spodiopsar sericeus (Gmelin, JF, 1789) | |
| Synonyms | |
Sturnus sericeus | |
The red-billed starling (Spodiopsar sericeus) is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae. It is found in south and southeastern China.
The red-billed starling was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae . He placed it with the starlings in the genus Sturnus and coined the binomial name Sturnus sericeus. [2] [3] The specific epithet sericeus is Medieval Latin meaning "silken". [4] Gmelin based his account on the "silk starling" from China that had been described and illustrated in 1776 by the English naturalist Peter Brown from a specimen owned by the collector Marmaduke Tunstall. [5]
The red-billed starling was formerly placed in the genus Sturnus . A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2008 found that the genus was polyphyletic. [6] In the reoganization to create monotypic genera, the red-billed starling and the white-cheeked starling were moved to the resurrected genus Spodiopsar that had been introduced in 1889 by Richard Bowdler Sharpe. The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised. [7]
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