White-faced plover
| White-faced plover | |
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| A white-faced plover in Laem Pak Bia, Thailand | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Charadriiformes |
| Family: | Charadriidae |
| Genus: | Charadrius |
| Species: | C. alexandrinus |
| Subspecies: | C. a. dealbatus |
| Trinomial name | |
| Charadrius alexandrinus dealbatus Swinhoe, 1870 | |
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The white-faced plover (Charadrius alexandrinus dealbatus) is a subspecies of the Kentish plover (Charadrius alexandrinus),[1] found in Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore. The bird resembles the Kentish plover with which it has been much confused.[2]
References
- ↑ Rheindt, F. E.; Székely, T. S.; Edwards, S. V.; Lee, P. L. M.; Burke, T.; Kennerley, P. R.; Bakewell, D. N.; Alrashidi, M.; Kosztolányi, A. S.; Weston, M. A.; Liu, W. T.; Lei, W. P.; Shigeta, Y.; Javed, S.; Zefania, S.; Küpper, C. (2011). Steinke, Dirk, ed. "Conflict between Genetic and Phenotypic Differentiation: The Evolutionary History of a 'Lost and Rediscovered' Shorebird". PLoS ONE 6 (11): e26995. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0026995. PMC 3212520. PMID 22096515.
- ↑ Kennerley, Peter R.; Bakewell, David N.; Round, Philip D. (2008). "Rediscovery of a long-lost Charadrius plover from South-East Asia" (PDF). Forktail 24: 63–79.
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