African Blue Tit
African Blue Tit (<em>Cyanistes teneriffae</em>) is a species of Tits, Chickadees (<em>Paridae</em>) in the order Perching Birds (Passerines).
Overview
African Blue Tit (Cyanistes teneriffae) is a species of Tits, Chickadees (Paridae) in the order Perching Birds (Passerines).
Scientific Classification
Genus: Cyanistes; binomial: Cyanistes teneriffae; authority: (Lesson, RP, 1831).
Distribution
Breeding range: Africa.
Conservation Status
This taxon is listed as Extant (living) in the IOC World Bird List.
Remarks
Cyanistes teneriffae is split from C. caeruleus (Salzburger et al. 2002). Subspecies sequence follows Stervander et al. (2015). Five to seven of the current subspecies may deserve full species status. Retain C. teneriffae as a single polytypic species pending further comprehensive analyses of all populations (Sangster 2006; Stervander et al. 2015; Illera et al. 2016).
