Sharpe's starling | |
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Illustration by John Gerrard Keulemans | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Sturnidae |
Genus: | Pholia Reichenow, 1900 |
Species: | P. sharpii
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Binomial name | |
Pholia sharpii (Jackson, 1898)
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Synonyms | |
Poeoptera sharpii |
Sharpe's starling (Pholia sharpii) is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae. It is found in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.[1] It is monotypic in the genus Pholia.
The common name and Latin binomial name commemorate the British zoologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b BirdLife International. (2018). "Pholia sharpii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22710783A131881229. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22710783A131881229.en. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. p. 309.