Overview
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Common Names
Common Names in English:
Bamenda Wattle-Eye, Banded Wattle-Eye
Description
Family Corvidae
A Family of passerine songbirds that contains the crows, ravens, rooks, jackdaws, jays, magpies, treepies and nutcrackers. Corvids are medium to large birds with strong feet and bills, rictal bristles and a single moult each year.
Habitat
Biome: Terrestrial
Ecology: It is found in montane
forest
, dominated by species such as Podocarpus, Schefflera and Prunus, where it inhabits thick forest understorey and seems to favour streams
or dry stream courses4,5. Below 1,800 m
, it is replaced by its congener
, Scarlet-spectacled Wattle-eye P. cyanea5. It breeds
in the early dry season
, January-March5, with nest-building starting in November3.[1]
List of Habitats
:1.9Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
()
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
()
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
()
- Auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
()
- Goodrich, 1930
- Class:
Aves
()
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Birds
- Subclass:
Neornithes
()
- Gadow, 1893
- Infraclass:
Neoaves
()
- Superorder:
Passerimorphae
()
- Order:
Passeriformes
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- Perching Birds
- Suborder:
Passeri
()
- Parvorder:
Corvida
()
- Superfamily:
Corvoidea
()
- Family:
Corvidae
()
- Crows, Jays
- Subfamily:
Malaconotinae
()
- Tribe:
Vangini
()
- Genus:
Platysteira
()
- Sundevall, 1850
- Specific name:
laticincta
- Bates, 1926
- Scientific name: - Platysteira laticincta Bates, 1926
- Specific name:
laticincta
- Bates, 1926
- Genus:
Platysteira
(
- Tribe:
Vangini
(
- Subfamily:
Malaconotinae
(
- Family:
Corvidae
(
- Superfamily:
Corvoidea
(
- Parvorder:
Corvida
(
- Suborder:
Passeri
(
- Order:
Passeriformes
(
- Superorder:
Passerimorphae
(
- Infraclass:
Neoaves
(
- Subclass:
Neornithes
(
- Class:
Aves
(
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001
Similar Species
Members of the genus Platysteira
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 22 species and subspecies in this genus:
P. albifrons (White-Fronted Wattle-Eye) · P. blissetti (Red-Cheeked Wattle-Eye) · P. castanea (Chestnut Wattle-Eye) · P. chalybea (Black-Necked Wattle-Eye) · P. concreta (Chestnut Yellow-Bellied Wattle Eye) · P. concreta ansorgei · P. concreta concreta (Chestnut Yellow-Bellied Wattle Eye) · P. concreta graueri · P. concreta kungwensis · P. cyanea (Brown-Throated Wattle-Eye) · P. cyanea aethiopica · P. cyanea cyanea (Brown-Throated Wattle-Eye) · P. cyanea nyansae · P. cyanea nyanzae · P. jacksoni · P. jamesoni (Jameson's Wattle-Eye) · P. laticincta (Bamenda Wattle-Eye) · P. peltata (Black-Throated Wattle-Eye) · P. peltata brevipennis · P. peltata jacksoni · P. peltata peltata (Black-Throated Wattle-Eye) · P. tonsa (White-Spotted Wattle-Eye)
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Further Reading
- Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (compilers and editors) 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
- BirdLife International 2006. Threatened Birds of the World 2006. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 04/05/2006.
- BirdLife International. 2000. Threatened Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, U.K.
- BirdLife International. 2004 Threatened Birds of the World 2004. CD-ROM. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.
- Collar, N.J. and Andrew, P. 1988. Birds to Watch. The ICBP World Checklist of Threatened Birds. ICBP Technical Publication No. 8. Page Bros. (Norwich) Ltd, Norfolk, England.
- Collar, N.J., Crosby, M.J. and Stattersfield, A.J. 1994. Birds to Watch 2. The World List of Threatened Birds BirdLife International. Page Bros (Norwich) Ltd, U.K.
- IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1986. 1986 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
- IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Notes
Contributors
- BirdLife International 2006. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
- BirdLife International 2006. Platysteira laticincta. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed November 4, 2006.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3847633
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-562271
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 562271
- IUCN ID: 17583
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Species Identifier: B0AB
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 9881
Footnotes
- BirdLife International 2006. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008. [back]
