Urorhipis
| Red-fronted warbler | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Cisticolidae |
| Genus: |
Urorhipis Heuglin, 1871 |
| Species: | U. rufifrons |
| Binomial name | |
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Urorhipis rufifrons (Rüppell, 1840) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Apalis rufifrons |
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Apalis rufifrons
Spiloptila rufifrons
The red-fronted warbler (Urorhipis rufifrons), also known as the red-fronted prinia and the red-faced apalis, is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family. It is found in Chad, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. Its natural habitat is dry savanna.
The red-fronted warbler was described by the German naturalist Eduard Rüppell in 1840 under the binomial name Prinia rufifrons. The type locality is Eritrea (the coastal region of Abyssinia). The specific epithet rufifrons comes from the Latin rufus for "red" and frons for "forehead" or "front".
There are three subspecies:
Some taxonomists place this species in the genus Prinia rather than in its own monotypic genus Urorhipis. Support for this alternative placement is provided by a molecular phylogentic study of the Cisticolidae published in 2013 that found that the red-fronted warbler was closely related to the prinias.
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