Golden-backed bishop
The golden-backed bishop (Euplectes aureus) is a species of bird in the family Ploceidae. It is found in western Angola and São Tomé Island.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Ploceidae |
| Genus: | Euplectes |
| Species: | E. aureus |
| Binomial name | |
| Euplectes aureus (Gmelin, JF, 1789) | |
Taxonomy
he golden-backed bishop was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae. He placed it with the crossbills in the genus Loxia and coined the binomial name Loxia aurea.[2][3] The specific epithet is Latin for "golden".[4] Gmelin based his account on the "Golden-backed finch" from Angola that had been described and illustrated in 1776 by the English naturalist Peter Brown.[5] The golden-backed bishop is now one of 18 species placed in the genus Euplectes that was introduced in 1829 by the English naturalist William John Swainson. It is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.[6]
References
- BirdLife International (2018). "Euplectes aureus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22719196A131991974. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22719196A131991974.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- Gmelin, Johann Friedrich (1789). Systema naturae per regna tria naturae : secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis (in Latin). Vol. 1, Part 2 (13th ed.). Lipsiae [Leipzig]: Georg. Emanuel. Beer.
- Mayr, Ernst; Greenway, James C. Jr, eds. (1962). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 15. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 68.
- Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 61. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- Brown, Peter (1776). Nouvelles illustrations de zoologie : contenant cinquante planches enlumineés d'oiseaux curieux, et qui non etés jamais descrits, et quelques de quadrupedes, de reptiles et d'insectes, avec de courtes descriptions systematiques (in French and English). London: B. White. p. 60, Plate 25.
- Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2023). "Old World sparrows, snowfinches, weavers". IOC World Bird List Version 13.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 20 August 2023.