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Purple-naped Sunbird / Purple-naped Spiderhunter
File:Purple-naped Sunbird.png
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Clade: Inopinaves
Order: Passeriformes
Suborder: Passeri
Clade: Basal Passeroidea
Family: Nectariniidae
Genus: Kurochkinegramma
(Kashin, 1978)
Species: K. hypogrammicum
Binomial name
Kurochkinegramma hypogrammicum
Müller, 1843
Synonyms[2]

Arachnothera hypogrammica
Nectarinia hypogrammica
Hypogramma hypogrammicum (preoccupied)

The Purple-naped Sunbird, Kurochkinegramma hypogrammicum is a species of sunbird in the family Nectariniidae. It is placed in the monotypic genus Kurochkinegramma although it is phylogenetically nested within the genus Arachnothera in which it may alternately be treated.[3][4]

Other names[]

Purple-naped Spiderhunter.[2]

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  1. ^ "Hypogramma hypogrammicum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013. 
  2. ^ a b (Subscription required) Cheke, R. & Mann, C. (2018). Purple-naped Spiderhunter (Arachnothera hypogrammica). In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. (retrieved from https://www.hbw.com/node/59989 on 21 February 2018).
  3. ^ Moyle, Robert G; Taylor, Sabrina S; Oliveros, Carl H; Lim, Haw Chuan; Haines, Cheryl L; Rahman, Mustafa A; Sheldon, Frederick H (2011). "Diversification of an endemic Southeast Asian genus: Phylogenetic relationships of the spiderhunters (Nectariniidae:Arachnothera)". The Auk. 128 (4): 777. doi:10.1525/auk.2011.11019. 
  4. ^ "ITIS Report: Hypogramma". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 5 December 2014. 

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