Dark-eyed white-eye

Dark-eyed white-eye
Not evaluated (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Zosteropidae
Genus: Zosterops
Species: Z. tetiparius
Binomial name
Zosterops tetiparius
Murphy, 1929

The dark-eyed white-eye (Zosterops tetiparius) is a species of bird in the Zosteropidae family. It is found in the Solomon Islands. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest.

Z. t. paradoxus is found only on Rendova and Z. t. tetiparius only on Tetepare.[1][2] The subspecies have never been recorded away from their respective home islands which lie just 3.4 km apart.[3]


References

  1. ↑ Internet Bird Collection. "Solomon White-eye (Zosterops kulambangrae)". Retrieved 9 January 2010.
  2. ↑ Mees, G. F. (1955). "The name of the white-eye from Rendova Island (Solomon Islands)". Zoologische Mededelingen 33 (28): 99–100.
  3. ↑ Mayr, Ernst & Jared M. Diamond (2001). The Birds of Northern Melanesia: Speciation, Ecology and Biogeography. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-514170-2.


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