Victorin's warbler
| Victorin's warbler | |
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| Painted by Joseph Wolf, 1866 | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Macrosphenidae |
| Genus: | Oberholser, 1899 |
| Species: | C. victorini |
| Binomial name | |
| Cryptillas victorini (Sundevall, 1860) | |
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Victorin's warbler (Cryptillas victorini) or Victorin's scrub warbler, is a species of African warbler, formerly placed in the family Sylviidae. It was recently split from the genus Bradypterus and now belongs to a monotypic genus Cryptillas.
It is endemic to the fynbos of South Africa's coastal Afromontane area.
The common name and scientific name commemorates Johan Fredrik Victorin (1831-1855), a Swedish traveler who visited South Africa.[2]
References
- ^ BirdLife International. (2024). "Cryptillas victorini". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2024: e.T22714510A263791066. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2024-2.RLTS.T22714510A263791066.en. Retrieved 6 August 2025.
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. p. 352.
External links
- Victorin's warbler - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.