Red-fronted warbler

Red-fronted warbler
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Cisticolidae
Genus: Urorhipis
Heuglin, 1871
Species: U. rufifrons
Binomial name
Urorhipis rufifrons
(Rüppell, 1840)
Synonyms

Apalis rufifrons
Spiloptila rufifrons

The red-fronted warbler (Urorhipis rufifrons), also known as the red-fronted prinia and the red-faced apalis, is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family. It is found in Chad, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. Its natural habitat is dry savanna.

Taxonomy

The red-fronted warbler was described by the German naturalist Eduard Rüppell in 1840 under the binomial name Prinia rufifrons. The type locality is Eritrea (the coastal region of Abyssinia).[2][3] The specific epithet rufifrons comes from the Latin rufus for "red" and frons for "forehead" or "front".[4]

There are three subspecies:[5]

  • U. r. rufifrons (Rüppell, 1840) – Chad to northwest Somalia
  • U. r. smithi (Sharpe, 1895) – southeast Sudan to central Somalia and north Tanzania
  • U. r. rufidorsalis (Sharpe, 1897) – southeast Kenya

Some taxonomists place this species in the genus Prinia rather than in its own monotypic genus Urorhipis.[6][7] Support for this alternative placement is provided by a molecular phylogentic study of the Cisticolidae published in 2013 that found that the red-fronted warbler was closely related to the prinias.[8]

References

  1. ↑ BirdLife International (2016). "Prinia rufifrons". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
  2. ↑ Rüppell, Eduard (1840). Neue Wirbelthiere zu der Fauna von Abyssinien gehörig (in German). Frankfurt am Main: S. Schmerber. p. 110, Plate 41 fig. 1.
  3. ↑ Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds. (1986). Check-list of Birds of the World. Volume 11. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 171.
  4. ↑ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 341. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  5. ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2017). "Grassbirds, Donacobius, Malagasy warblers, cisticolas & allies". World Bird List Version 7.3. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
  6. ↑ Ryan, P.; Dean, R. (2017). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E., eds. "Red-fronted Prinia (Prinia rufifrons)". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 27 August 2017. (Subscription required (help)).
  7. ↑ Lepage, Denis. "Red-fronted Warbler". Avibase. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
  8. ↑ Olsson, U.; Irestedt, M.; Sangster, G.; Ericson, P.G.P.; Alström, P. (2013). "Systematic revision of the avian family Cisticolidae based on a multi-locus phylogeny of all genera". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 66 (3). doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2012.11.004.
  • Ryan, Peter (2006). Family Cisticolidae (Cisticolas and allies). pp. 378–492 in del Hoyo J., Elliott A. & Christie D.A. (2006) Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 11. Old World Flycatchers to Old World Warblers Lynx Edicions, Barcelona ISBN 978-84-96553-06-4


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