| 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 |
| Binomial name | |
| Pholia sharpii (Jackson, 1898) | |
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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, Tanzania, and Uganda. It is monotypic in the genus Pholia.
The common name and Latin binomial name commemorate the British zoologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe.[2]
References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Cinnyricinclus sharpii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. p. 309.
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