Sharpe's apalis

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Sharpe's apalis
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In Ghana
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Cisticolidae
Genus: Apalis
Species:
A. sharpii
Binomial name
Apalis sharpii
Shelley, 1884

Sharpe's apalis (Apalis sharpii) is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae.

It is found in Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest.

Sharpe's apalis was described by the English ornithologist George Ernest Shelley in 1884. He coined the binomial name Apalis sharpii. Both the common name and the specific epithet honour the English ornithologist and museum curator Richard Bowdler Sharpe. [2]

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References

  1. BirdLife International (2022). "Apalis sharpii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2022: e.T22713766A210890093. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
  2. Shelley, George Ernest (1884). "On two new species of birds from Africa". Ibis. 5th series. 2: 45–49 [45].