| Sharpe's starling | |
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| Illustration byJohn Gerrard Keulemans | |
Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Sturnidae |
| Genus: | Pholia Reichenow, 1900 |
| Species: | P. sharpii |
| Binomial name | |
| Pholia sharpii (Jackson, 1898) | |
| Synonyms | |
Poeoptera sharpii | |
Sharpe's starling (Pholia sharpii) is a species ofstarling in the familySturnidae. It is found inBurundi, theDemocratic Republic of the Congo,Ethiopia,Kenya,Rwanda,South Sudan,Sudan,Tanzania, andUganda.[1] It is monotypic in the genusPholia.
The common name and Latin binomial name commemorate the British zoologistRichard Bowdler Sharpe.[2]
