Chirinda apalis: Difference between revisions

The Chirinda apalis was first formally [[Species description|described]] in 1906 by the English [[geologist]] and [[ornithologist]] [[George Ernest Shelley]]. The type specimen was collected in June 1905 in the [[Chirinda Forest Botanical Reserve|Chirinda Forest]] in eastern [[Company rule in Rhodesia|Rhodesia]], modern Zimbabwe, at an altitude of {{cvt|4,000|ft}}.<ref name = Bulletin>{{cite journal |author=G. E. Shelley |year=1906 | journal= Bulletin of the British Ornithologist's Club | title = ''Apalis chirindensis'' |volume=16 |page=126 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/100946#page/152/mode/1up}}</ref> The Chirinda apalis is classified in the genus ''[[Apalis]]'' which belongs to the family Cisticolidae, which includes the [[Cisticola|cisticolas]], [[prinia|prinias]], [[Tailorbird|tailorbirds]], [[eremomela]]s and other groups of “African” warblers, formerly classified within the [[Old World warbler]] family [[Sylviidae]].<ref name = Systematic>{{cite journal |author=Alström P. |author2=P.G.P. Ericson |author3=U. Olsson |name-list-style=and |author4=P. Sundberg |year=2006 |title=Phylogeny and classification of the avian superfamily Sylvioidea |journal=Molecular PhylogeneticPhylogenetics and Evolution |volume=38 |issue=2 |pages=381–397 |doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2005.05.015|pmid=16054402 |bibcode=2006MolPE..38..381A }}</ref>