Cinnamon Ibon | |
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Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Passeridae |
Genus: | Hypocryptadius Hartert, 1903 |
Species: | H. cinnamomeus |
Binomial name | |
Hypocryptadius cinnamomeus Hartert, 1903 |
The Cinnamon Ibon (Hypocryptadius cinnamomeus) is a species of bird endemic to the mountains of Mindanao in the Philippines.[1] Monotypic within the genus Hypocryptadius, it is classified as a sparrow after being tenatively placed in the white-eye family Zosteropidae.[2] Its natural habitat is tropical moist montane forests and mossy forests above 1,000 metres (3,300 ft).[1] It has a skull and bill similar to that of the sparrows, and following a study of its mitochondrial and nuclear DNA, Jon Fjeldså and colleagues placed the species as the most basal member of that family.[2]