Red-cheeked Wattle-eye
Platysteira blissetti(Sharpe, RB, 1872)
English (US) Red-cheeked Wattle-eye
The Red-cheeked Wattle-eye (Platysteira blissetti) 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 Platysteiridae (Wattle-eyes and Batises) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: humid forest of Guinea and southern Sierra Leone to southern CameroonRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Platysteira blissetti
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Red-cheeked Wattle-eye
- Described by
- (Sharpe, RB, 1872)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Diaphorophyia Blissetti
- Described by
- (Sharpe, RB, 1872)
- Type locality
- Gold Coast.
- Original description
- The Annals and Magazine of Natural History including Zoology, Botany, and Geology ser.4, vol.10, no.60 p.451
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
Other species of the family Wattle-eyes and Batises
West African Wattle-eye
Dyaphorophyia hormophora
White-spotted Wattle-eye
Dyaphorophyia tonsa
Brown-throated Wattle-eye
Platysteira cyanea
White-fronted Wattle-eye
Platysteira albifrons
Black-throated Wattle-eye
Platysteira peltata
Banded Wattle-eye
Platysteira laticincta
Black-necked Wattle-eye
Platysteira chalybea
Jameson's Wattle-eye
Platysteira jamesoni
Yellow-bellied Wattle-eye
Platysteira concreta
Margaret's Batis
Batis margaritae
Short-tailed Batis
Batis mixta
Dark Batis
Batis crypta
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