Somali Tit

Somali Tit / Melaniparus thruppi

Somali Tit

Here the details of the Somali Tit named bird below:

SCI Name:  Melaniparus thruppi
Protonym:  Parus thruppi Ibis p.406 pl.XI
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Paridae /
Taxonomy Code:  somtit4
Type Locality:  SomaUland [''near centre of plateau,'' south of Burao] .
Author:  
Publish Year:  1885
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

MELANIPARUS
(Paridae; Ϯ Southern Black Tit M. niger) Gr. μελας  melas, μελανος  melanos  black; genus Parus Linnaeus, 1758, tit; "489. Melaniparus, Bp. (Parus, p. Gr.)  3. P. niger, Vieill. (luctuosus, Licht.) Lev. Afr. t. 137. 1. ex Africa mer." (Bonaparte 1850).
Var. Melanoparus.
Synon. Aegithospiza, Pentheres.

thruppi
James Godfrey Thrupp (1848-1913) British surgeon in Natal 1878-1879, explorer in Somaliland 1884-1885 (Melaniparus).

SUBSPECIES

Somali Tit (thruppi)
SCI Name: Melaniparus thruppi thruppi
thruppi
James Godfrey Thrupp (1848-1913) British surgeon in Natal 1878-1879, explorer in Somaliland 1884-1885 (Melaniparus).

Somali Tit (barakae)
SCI Name: Melaniparus thruppi barakae
baraka / barakae
● Baraka (d. 1911) Kenyan hunter, skinner for Sir Frederick Jackson (subsp. Bradypterus lopezi, subsp. Illadopsis albipectus, subsp. Melaniparus thruppi, syn. Nectarinia purpureiventris, subsp. Sylvietta virens, subsp. Turdus abyssinicus).
● Baraka, Sud Kivu, Belgian Congo (= DR Congo) (syn. Campethera tullbergi taeniolaema).