| Yellow-browed camaroptera | |
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| Near Kakum in Ghana | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Cisticolidae |
| Genus: | Camaroptera |
| Species: | C. superciliaris |
| Binomial name | |
| Camaroptera superciliaris (Fraser, 1843) | |
The yellow-browed camaroptera (Camaroptera superciliaris) is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. It is found in Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland.
The yellow-browed camaroptera was described by the English zoologist Louis Fraser in 1843 under the binomial name Sylvicola superciliaris. The type locality is the island of Bioko (formerly Fernando Pó) in the Gulf of Guinea off the west coast of Africa.[2][3] The specific epithet superciliaris is from the New Latin superciliaris, "eyebrowed" from the classical Latin supercilium, "eyebrow".[4]
References
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Camaroptera superciliaris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ Fraser, Louis (1843). "Sylvicola superciliaris". Annals and Magazine of Natural History; Zoology, Botany, and Geology. 12: 440.
- ^ Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds. (1986). Check-list of Birds of the World. Volume 11. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 190.
- ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 374. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.