red-fronted prinia
{{Short description|Species of bird}}
{{Speciesbox
| name = Red-fronted prinia
| image = Red-fronted Prinia iNaturalist.jpg
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| genus = Prinia
| species = rufifrons
| authority = Rüppell, 1840
| synonyms =
- Apalis rufifrons
- Spiloptila rufifrons
- Urorhipis rufifrons
}}
The red-fronted prinia (Prinia rufifrons), also known as the red-fronted warbler and the red-faced apalis, is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae.
It is found in Chad, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Taxonomy
The red-fronted prinia was described by the German naturalist Eduard Rüppell in 1840 under the binomial name Prinia rufifrons. The type locality is Eritrea (the coastal region of Abyssinia).{{ cite book | last=Rüppell | first=Eduard | author-link=Eduard Rüppell | year=1840 | title=Neue Wirbelthiere zu der Fauna von Abyssinien gehörig | language=German | place=Frankfurt am Main | publisher=S. Schmerber | page=110, [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37140285 Plate 41 fig. 1] | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37140198 }}{{ cite book | editor1-last=Mayr | editor1-first=Ernst | editor1-link=Ernst Mayr | editor2-last=Cottrell | editor2-first=G. William | year=1986 | title=Check-list of Birds of the World | volume=11 | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=171 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14483872 }} The specific epithet rufifrons comes from the Latin rufus for "red" and frons for "forehead" or "front".{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn= 978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=341 | url=https://archive.org/stream/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling#page/n341/mode/1up }}
There are three subspecies:{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | year=2017 | title=Grassbirds, Donacobius, Malagasy warblers, cisticolas & allies | work=World Bird List Version 7.3 | url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/grassbirds/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | accessdate=26 August 2017 }}
- P. r. rufifrons Rüppell, 1840 – Chad to northwest Somalia
- P. r. smithi (Sharpe, 1895) – southeast Sudan to central Somalia and north Tanzania
- P. r. rufidorsalis (Sharpe, 1897) – southeast Kenya
Many taxonomists place this species in the genus Prinia rather than in its own monotypic genus Urorhipis.{{cite web | last1=Ryan | first1=P. | last2=Dean | first2=R. | year=2017 | title=Red-fronted Prinia (Prinia rufifrons) | editor1-last=del Hoyo | editor1-first=J. | editor2-last=Elliott | editor2-first=A. | editor3-last=Sargatal | editor3-first=J. | editor4-last=Christie | editor4-first=D.A. | editor5-last=de Juana | editor5-first=E. | work=Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive | publisher=Lynx Edicions | url=http://www.hbw.com/node/58704 | accessdate=27 August 2017 |url-access=subscription }}{{ cite web | last=Lepage | first=Denis | title=Red-fronted Warbler | publisher=Avibase | url=https://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/species.jsp?lang=EN&avibaseid=D8177CECEA46EF3E | accessdate=1 September 2017 }} Support for this alternative placement is provided by a molecular phylogenetic study of the Cisticolidae published in 2013 that found that the red-fronted warbler was closely related to the prinias.{{ cite journal | last1=Olsson | first1=U. | last2=Irestedt | first2=M. | last3=Sangster | first3=G. | last4=Ericson | first4=P.G.P. | last5=Alström | first5=P. | year=2013 | title=Systematic revision of the avian family Cisticolidae based on a multi-locus phylogeny of all genera | journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | volume=66 | issue=3 | doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2012.11.004 | pmid=23159891 | pages=790–9 }}
References
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- Ryan, Peter (2006). Family Cisticolidae (Cisticolas and allies). pp. 378–492 in del Hoyo J., Elliott A. & Christie D.A. (2006) Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 11. Old World Flycatchers to Old World Warblers'' Lynx Edicions, Barcelona {{ISBN|978-84-96553-06-4}}
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Category:Birds of the Horn of Africa
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