Hartert's camaroptera (Camaroptera harterti) is a small bird in the family Cisticolidae. It is endemic to Angola.

Hartert's camaroptera
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Cisticolidae
Genus: Camaroptera
Species:
C. harterti
Binomial name
Camaroptera harterti
Zedlitz, 1911
Synonyms

Camaroptera griseoviridis harterti

Hartert's camaroptera was described by the German ornithologist Otto Eduard Graf von Zedlitz und Trützschler in 1911 under the trinomial name Camaroptera griseoviridis harterti. The type location in the town of Canhoca in northern Angola.[2][3] The specific epithet harterti is in honour of the German ornithologist Ernst Hartert who was the curator of the Rothschild Museum in Tring, England.[4] It was at one time treated as a subspecies of the green-backed camaroptera but is now treated as a separate species.[1]

References edit

  1. ^ a b BirdLife International (2017). "Camaroptera harterti". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T103774747A111466621. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-1.RLTS.T103774747A111466621.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  2. ^ Zedlitz, Otto von (1911). "Revision des Genus Camaroptera". Journal für Ornithologie (in German). 59 (2): 328–345 [342]. doi:10.1007/bf02091057.
  3. ^ Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds. (1986). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 11. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 190.
  4. ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 186. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.