White-shouldered Black Tit
Melaniparus guineensis(Shelley, GE, 1900)
English (US) White-shouldered Black Tit
The White-shouldered Black Tit (Melaniparus guineensis) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Paridae (Tits, Chickadees, and Titmice) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: southern Mauritania and Senegal eastward to southern Sudan, South Sudan, and southwestern Ethiopia, southward to northern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, and far western KenyaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Melaniparus guineensis
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- White-shouldered Black Tit
- Described by
- (Shelley, GE, 1900)
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Taxonomic history
- First described as
- Parus leucomelas guineensis
- Described by
- (Shelley, GE, 1900)
- Type locality
- Volta River, Gold Coast.
- Original description
- Birds of Africa, comprising all the species which occur in the Ethiopian Region 2 p.229
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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