Radde's accentor (''Prunella ocularis'') is a species of
bird in the family
Prunellidae. It is found in mountainous parts of
Yemen and northern
Southwest Asia.
Its natural
habitat is temperate
grassland.
Taxonomy
Radde's accentor was
described by the German naturalist
Gustav Radde in 1884 from a specimen collected in the
Talysh Mountains near the Azerbaijan-Iran border. He coined the
binomial name
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...
''Accentor ocularis''. It is now placed in the
genus ''
Prunella'' that was introduced by the French ornithologist
Louis Vieillot
Louis Pierre Vieillot (10 May 1748, Yvetot – 24 August 1830, Sotteville-lès-Rouen) was a French ornithologist.
Vieillot is the author of the first scientific descriptions and Linnaean names of a number of birds, including species he collecte ...
in 1816.
The species is
monotypic.
References
External links
Xeno-canto: audio recordings of Radde's accentor
Radde's accentor
Birds of Azerbaijan
Birds of Western Asia
Radde's accentor
Radde's accentor
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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