Radde's accentor

Radde's accentor (Prunella ocularis) is a species of bird in the family Prunellidae. It is found in mountainous parts of Yemen and northern Southwest Asia.

Radde's accentor
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Prunellidae
Genus: Prunella
Species:
P. ocularis
Binomial name
Prunella ocularis
(Radde, 1884)
Synonyms

Accentor ocularis

Its natural habitat is temperate grassland.

Taxonomy

Radde's accentor was described by the German naturalist Gustav Radde in 1884 from a specimen collected in the Talysh Mountains near the Azerbaijan-Iran border. He coined the binomial name Accentor ocularis.[2] It is now placed in the genus Prunella that was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Vieillot in 1816.[3] The species is monotypic.[4]

References
  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Prunella ocularis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  2. Radde, Gustav (1884). Ornis Caucasica. Die Vogelwelt des Kaukasus systematisch und biologischgepgraphisch bescrieben (in German). pp. 33, 244-245, pl. 14.
  3. Vieillot, Louis Jean Pierre (1816). Analyse d'une Nouvelle Ornithologie Élémentaire (in French). Paris: Deterville/self. p. 43.
  4. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Waxbills, parrotfinches, munias, whydahs, Olive Warbler, accentors, pipits". World Bird List Version 9.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 12 March 2019.


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