The Annam prinia (''Prinia rocki'') is a species of

bird Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweigh ...

in the family

Cisticolidae The family Cisticolidae is a group of about 160 warblers, small passerine birds found mainly in warmer southern regions of the Old World. They were formerly included within the Old World warbler family Sylviidae. This family probably originated ...

. It and the

Burmese prinia The Burmese prinia (''Prinia cooki'') is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. It and the Annam prinia (''P. rocki'') were formerly lumped with Deignan's prinia (''P. polychroa'') as the brown prinia. It is found in Southeast Asia, wher ...

(''P. cooki'') were formerly lumped with Deignan's prinia (''P. polychroa'') as the brown prinia. It is found in the Đà Lạt Plateau of the

Annamite Mountains The Annamite Range or the Annamese Mountains (french: Chaîne annamitique; lo, ພູ ຫລວງ ''Phou Luang''; vi, Dãy (núi) Trường Sơn) is a major mountain range of eastern Indochina, extending approximately through Laos, Vietnam, ...

in a small portion of southern

Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making i ...

and eastern

Cambodia Cambodia (; also Kampuchea ; km, កម្ពុជា, UNGEGN: ), officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochinese Peninsula in Southeast Asia, spanning an area of , bordered by Thailand t ...

. It is

monotypic In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unispec ...

and has no known subspecies. It was split from ''P. cooki'' and ''P. polychroa'' following a phylogenetic study published in 2019.

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Annam prinia The Annam prinia (''Prinia rocki'') is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. It and the Burmese prinia (''P. cooki'') were formerly lumped with Deignan's prinia (''P. polychroa'') as the brown prinia. It is found in the Đà Lạt Pla ...

Birds of Cambodia Birds of Vietnam

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