Wakatobi white-eye
| Wakatobi white-eye | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Zosteropidae |
| Genus: | Zosterops |
| Species: | Z. flavissimus
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| Binomial name | |
| Zosterops flavissimus Hartert, 1903
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The Wakatobi white-eye (Zosterops flavissimus) is a species of bird in the family Zosteropidae. It is endemic to Indonesia, where it is known only from the Wakatobi Islands off south-eastern Sulawesi. It can be distinguished from most other Indonesian white-eyes by its bright yellow belly. It was formerly considered a subspecies of the lemon-bellied white-eye (Z. chloris), but it was long known to be reproductively isolated from the rest of the species, and a 2019 genetic study found it to be a distinct species.[1][2]
References
- ^ Marples, Nicola M.; Analuddin, Kangkuso; Karya, Adi; Marcaigh, Fionn Ó; O’Brien, Katie; Lawless, Naomi; Kelly, David J.; O’Connell, Darren P. (2019). "A sympatric pair of undescribed white-eye species (Aves: Zosteropidae: Zosterops) with different origins". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 186 (3): 701–724. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz022.
- ^ "Two New Species of White-Eyes Discovered in Indonesia | Biology | Sci-News.com". Breaking Science News | Sci-News.com. Retrieved 2019-05-09.