| Sharpe's starling | |
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| Illustration by John Gerrard Keulemans | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Sturnidae |
| Genus: | Pholia Reichenow, 1900 |
| Species: | P. sharpii
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| Binomial name | |
| Pholia sharpii (Jackson, 1898)
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Poeoptera sharpii | |
Sharpe's starling (Pholia sharpii) is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae. It is found in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.1 It is monotypic in the genus Pholia.
The common name and Latin binomial name commemorate the British zoologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe.2
References
References
- BirdLife International. (2018). "Pholia sharpii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018 e.T22710783A131881229. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22710783A131881229.en. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
- Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. p. 309.