Classification

Order:
  Passeriformes
Family:
  Zosteropidae
Genus:
   Zosterops
Scientific:
  Zosterops simplex

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Original description

Citation:
  Swinhoe, R 1861

Reference:
   Ibis (1) 3 (12) p. 331 (in text)

Protonym:
  Z[osterops] simplex

Link:
  https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8618863

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Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
  CE59C27F80962E4E

Avibase ID:
  avibase-CE59C27F

Short link:
  https://avibase.ca/CE59C27F

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Taxonomic Serial Number:
  TSN: 916997

Geographic range:

• Zosterops simplex simplex: breeds in eastern China (from extreme southern Gansu east to Jiangsu, south to eastern Yunnan, Guangxi, Guangdong and Fujian), Taiwan, and northeastern Vietnam; northern populations migratory, wintering from southeastern China to Thailand and central Indochina
• Zosterops simplex hainanus: Hainan (s China)
• Zosterops simplex williamsoni: southern Thailand and east coast of northern and central Thai-Malay Peninsula
• Zosterops simplex erwini: coastal forests of the western and southeastern Thai-Malay Peninsula, of Sumatra, the Riau Islands, Bangka, and the Natuna Islands; population of coastal western Borneo provisionally assigned here, but possibly a distinct taxon