The Sumatran flowerpecker (Dicaeum beccarii) is a species of bird in the family Dicaeidae that is found in montane Sumatra. It was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the fire-breasted flowerpecker (Dicaeum ignipectus).
| Sumatran flowerpecker | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Dicaeidae |
| Genus: | Dicaeum |
| Species: | D. beccarii
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| Binomial name | |
| Dicaeum beccarii | |
Taxonomy
editThe Sumatran flowerpecker was formally described in 1916 by the British zoologists Herbert C. Robinson and C. Boden Kloss based on three specimens that they had collected on Mount Kerinci on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. They coined the binomial name Dicaeum beccarii.[2][3] They chose the specific epithet to honour the Italian botanist and explorer Odoardo Beccari.[4] The Sumatran flowerpecker was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the fire-breasted flowerpecker (Dicaeum ignipectus) but based on differences in plumage, it is now treated as a separate species. It is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.[5]
References
edit- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Dicaeum beccarii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T103776954A104323766. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T103776954A104323766.en. Retrieved 29 January 2024.
- ^ Robinson, Herbert C.; Kloss, C. Boden (1916). "Preliminary diagnoses of some new species and subspecies of mammals and birds obtained in Korinchi, West Sumatra, Feb.—June 1914". Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. 73: 269-278 [278].
- ^ Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1986). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 12. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 198.
- ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 69. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ 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.