Mount Cameroon Speirops
Zosterops melanocephalusGray, GR, 1862
English (US) Mount Cameroon Speirops
The Mount Cameroon Speirops (Zosterops melanocephalus) 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 Zosteropidae (White-eyes, Yuhinas, and Allies) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: montane forest of Mount CameroonRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Zosterops melanocephalus
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Vulnerable
- English (US)
- Mount Cameroon Speirops
- Described by
- Gray, GR, 1862
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Zosterops (Speirops) melanocephala
- Described by
- Gray, GR, 1862
- Type locality
- Cameroon Mountain, 7,000 ft.
- Original description
- The Annals and Magazine of Natural History including Zoology, Botany, and Geology ser.3, vol.10, no.60 p.444
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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