Swinhoe's white-eye (''Zosterops simplex'') is a bird
species in the white-eye family
Zosteropidae. It is found in east China, Taiwan, north Vietnam, the
Thai-Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo.
Taxonomy
Swinhoe's white-eye was
formally described in 1861 by the English naturalist
Robert Swinhoe
Robert Swinhoe FRS (1 September 1836 – 28 October 1877) was an English diplomat and naturalist who worked as a Consul in Formosa. He catalogued many Southeast Asian birds, and several, such as Swinhoe's pheasant, are named after him.
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and given 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 ...
''Zosterops simplex''. The genus ''
Zosterops'' had been introduced by the naturalists
Nicholas Vigors
Nicholas Aylward Vigors (1785 – 26 October 1840) was an Irish zoologist and politician. He popularized the classification of birds on the basis of the quinarian system.
Early life
Vigors was born at Old Leighlin, County Carlow on 1785 as fi ...
and
Thomas Horsfield in 1827. The genus name combines the
Ancient Greek words ''zōstēros'' meaning "belt" or "girdle" and ''ōpos'' meaning "eye". The specific epithet ''simplex'' is
Latin meaning "simple" or "plain".
This species was formerly treated as a
subspecies
In biological classification, subspecies is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed. Not all species ...
group of the
warbling white-eye (''Zosterops japonicus'') but based on the results of a
molecular phylogenetic
Molecular phylogenetics () is the branch of phylogeny that analyzes genetic, hereditary molecular differences, predominantly in DNA sequences, to gain information on an organism's evolutionary relationships. From these analyses, it is possible to ...
study published in 2018, it was promoted to species rank.
Five
subspecies
In biological classification, subspecies is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed. Not all species ...
are recognised:
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* ''Z. s. simplex'' R. Swinhoe, 1861 – east China, Taiwan and extreme northeast Vietnam
* ''Z. s. hainanus'' Hartert, 1923 – Hainan (off southeast China)
* ''Z. s. erwini'' (]Chasen ChaSen is a morphological parser for the Japanese language. This tool for analyzing morphemes was developed at the Matsumoto laboratory, Nara Institute of Science and Technology.
See also
* MeCab
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, 1935) – coastal Thai-Malay Peninsula, lowland Sumatra, Riau Islands, Bangka Island, Natuna Islands and lowland west Borneo
* ''Z. s. williamsoni'' Robinson & Kloss, 1919 – Gulf of Thailand
The Gulf of Thailand, also known as the Gulf of Siam, is a shallow inlet in the southwestern South China Sea, bounded between the southwestern shores of the Indochinese Peninsula and the northern half of the Malay Peninsula. It is around in l ...
coast and west Cambodia
* ''Z. s. salvadorii'' Meyer, AB & Wiglesworth, 1894 – Enggano Island (west Sumatra)
References
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Swinhoe's white-eye
Birds of East Asia
Birds of Southeast Asia
Swinhoe's white-eye