Hartert's camaroptera
Hartert's camaroptera (Camaroptera harterti) is a small bird in the family Cisticolidae. It is endemic to Angola.
| Hartert's camaroptera | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Cisticolidae |
| Genus: | Camaroptera |
| Species: | C. harterti |
| Binomial name | |
| Camaroptera harterti Zedlitz, 1911 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Camaroptera griseoviridis harterti | |
Hartert's camaroptera was described by the German ornithologist Otto Eduard Graf von Zedlitz und Trützschler in 1911 under the trinomial name Camaroptera griseoviridis harterti. The type location in the town of Canhoca in northern Angola.[2][3] The specific epithet harterti is in honour of the German ornithologist Ernst Hartert who was the curator of the Rothschild Museum in Tring, England.[4] It was at one time treated as a subspecies of the green-backed camaroptera but is now treated as a separate species.[1]
References
- BirdLife International (2017). "Camaroptera harterti". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
- Zedlitz, Otto von (1911). "Revision des Genus Camaroptera". Journal für Ornithologie (in German). 59 (2): 328–345 [342]. doi:10.1007/bf02091057.
- Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds. (1986). Check-list of Birds of the World. Volume 11. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 190.
- Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 186. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
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