Kabobo apalis

Kabobo apalis
Conservation status
Not recognized (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Cisticolidae
Genus: Apalis
Species: A. porphyrolaema
Subspecies: A. p. kaboboensis
Trinomial name
Apalis porphyrolaema kaboboensis
Prigogine, 1955
Synonyms
  • Apalis kaboboensis Prigogine, 1955

The Kabobo apalis (Apalis porphyrolaema kaboboensis) is a bird in the family Cisticolidae. It is endemic to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Originally described as a distinct species, it is usually treated as a subspecies of the chestnut-throated apalis, with BirdLife International revising its status to subspecies in 2008.[1]

Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. Its status is insufficiently known; when it was still considered a good species, it was classified as Data deficient by the IUCN with the remark that it might be considered a threatened taxon.[2]

Footnotes

  1. BLI (2008a,b)
  2. BLI (2004)

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