Sumba flowerpecker
| Sumba flowerpecker | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Dicaeidae |
| Genus: | Dicaeum |
| Species: | D. wilhelminae
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| Binomial name | |
| Dicaeum wilhelminae Büttikofer, 1892
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The Sumba flowerpecker (Dicaeum wilhelminae) is a species of passerine bird in the flowerpecker family Dicaeidae that is found on the Indonesian island of Sumba, one of the Lesser Sunda Islands. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist forest. It was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the blood-breasted flowerpecker, now renamed the Javan flowerpecker.
Taxonomy
[edit]The Sumba flowerpecker was formally described in 1892 by the Swiss zoologist Johann Büttikofer based on a specimen collected on the Indonesian island of Sumba. He coined the binomial name Dicaeum wilhelminae.[2][3] The specific epithet was chosen to honour the young queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands.[2][4] The Sumba flowerpecker was formerly treated as a subspecies of the blood-breasted flowerpecker, (renamed the Javan flowerpecker) but is now considered as a separate species based on the differences in plumage and vocalizations. The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ BirdLife International (2024). "Dicaeum wilhelminae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2024. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
- ^ a b Büttikofer, Johann (1892). "On a collection of birds from the islands of Flores, Sumba and Rotti". Notes from the Leyden Museum. 14: 193-206 [199].
- ^ Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1986). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 12. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 194.
- ^ Jobling, James A. "wilhelminae". The Key to Scientific Names. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2024). "Dippers, leafbirds, flowerpeckers, sunbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 14.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
