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Pink-breasted flowerpecker

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Species of bird

Pink-breasted flowerpecker
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Dicaeidae
Genus: Dicaeum
Species: D. keiense
Binomial name
Dicaeum keiense
Salvadori, 1874

The pink-breasted flowerpecker (Dicaeum keiense) is a species of bird in the family Dicaeidae that is native to the south and southeast Maluku Islands of Indonesia. It was formerly considered a subspecies of the mistletoebird (Dicaeum hirundinaceum).

Taxonomy

The pink-breasted flowerpecker was formally described in 1874 by the Italian zoologist Tommaso Salvadori based on a specimen collected on the Kai Islands by the Italian botanist Odoardo Beccari. Salvadori coined the binomial name Dicaeum keiense. The specific epithet is from the alternative spelling "Kei" for the Kai Islands. The pink-breasted flowerpecker was formerly considered as a subspecies of the mistletoebird (Dicaeum hirundinaceum).

Two subspecies are recognised:

References

  1. BirdLife International (2018). "Dicaeum keiense". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T103778206A132044192. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T103778206A132044192.en. Retrieved 29 January 2024.
  2. Salvadori, Tommaso (1874). "Altre nuove specie di uccelli raccolte nella Nuova Guinea dal Sig. L. M. D'Albertis e nelle isole Aru e Kei dal Dott. O. Beccari". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova (in Italian and Latin). 6: 308–314 .
  3. Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1986). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 12. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 195.
  4. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 213. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  5. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (December 2023). "Dippers, leafbirds, flowerpeckers, sunbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 14.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 29 January 2024.
Taxon identifiers
Dicaeum keiense

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