Javan flowerpecker

Javan flowerpecker
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Dicaeidae
Genus: Dicaeum
Species:
D. sanguinolentum
Binomial name
Dicaeum sanguinolentum
Temminck, 1829

The Javan flowerpecker (Dicaeum sanguinolentum), formerly named the blood-breasted flowerpecker, is a species of passerine bird in the flowerpecker family Dicaeidae. It is found on the Indonesian islands of Java and Bali in the Lesser Sunda Islands. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. It was formerly considered to be conspecific with the Flores, Sumba, and Timor flowerpeckers.

Taxonomy

The Javan flowerpecker was formally described and illustrated in 1829 by the Dutch zoologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck based on a specimen that had been collected on the Indonesian island of Java by Heinrich Kuhl and Johan Conrad van Hasselt. Temminck coined the binomial name Dicaeum sanguinolentum.[2][3] The specific epithet is from Latin sanguinolentus meaning "bloody".[4] The Flores, Sumba, and Timor flowerpeckers were formerly considered as subspecies but are now treated as separate species based on the differences in plumage and vocalizations. The English name was changed from "blood-breasted flowerpecker" to "Javan flowerpecker" to reflect the reduced range.[5]

References

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2022). "Dicaeum sanguinolentum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2022. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-2.RLTS.T216915934A217423940.en. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
  2. ^ Temminck, Coenraad Jacob (1829). Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux, pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon (in French). Vol. 3. Paris: F.G. Levrault. Livraison 80, Plate 478, Fig. 2. The 5 volumes were originally issued in 102 livraison (parts), 1820-1839. For the publication date see: Dickinson, E.C. (2001). "Systematic notes on Asian birds. 9. The Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées of Temminck & Laugier (1820–1839)". Zoologische verhandelingen Leiden. 335: 7–53.
  3. ^ Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1986). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 12. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 194.
  4. ^ Jobling, James A. "sanguinolentum". The Key to Scientific Names. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
  5. ^ 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.


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