Hildebrandt's starling

Hildebrandt's starling
Adult in Tanzania
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Sturnidae
Genus: Lamprotornis
Species:
L. hildebrandti
Binomial name
Lamprotornis hildebrandti
(Cabanis, 1878)

Hildebrandt's starling (Lamprotornis hildebrandti) is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae. It forms a superspecies with and has previously been included in the same species as Shelley's starling, a migratory species ranging from Ethiopia and Somalia to Kenya. Both of these species have also been combined into a superspecies with the chestnut-bellied starling of West Africa.[2] It was originally placed in the now defunct genus Notauges.[3] The species is named for Johann Maria Hildebrandt, a German collector who was the first European to obtain specimens.[4]

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Lamprotornis hildebrandti". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22710779A94260192. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22710779A94260192.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference HBW was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Cabanis, Jean (1878). "On a new Species of Notauges (N. hildebrandti, Cab.)". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 46 (1): 721. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1878.tb08011.x.
  4. ^ Beentje, H.J. (1998). "J. M. Hildebrandt (1847 - 1881): Notes on His Travels and Plant Collections". Kew Bulletin. 53 (4): 835–856. doi:10.2307/4118872. JSTOR 4118872.

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