Merops viridissimus viridissimus Swainson, 1837

Boano, Giovanni, Belemsobgo, Urbain, Silvano, Fabrizio, Hema, Emmanuel M., Belemsobgo, Aristide, Dimobe, Kangbéni & Pavia, Marco, 2022, An annotated checklist of the birds of Burkina Faso, Zoosystema 44 (2), pp. 27-107 : 64

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5252/zoosystema2022v44a2
publication LSID	urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:87C8AAD7-AD55-4CC5-B12F-0BE5A9764CAF
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6306066
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E25387BB-2E69-FFDF-FE85-8A55FEF3FCD8
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Merops viridissimus viridissimus Swainson, 1837
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Merops viridissimus viridissimus Swainson, 1837 View in CoL

LITERATURE. — Bannerman (1931); Green & Sayer (1979); Holyoak & Seddon (1989); Thonnérieux et al. (1989); Dowsett (1993); Balanca & de Visscher (1997); Mauvais (1998); Borrow & Demey (2001, 2014); Portier (2002c); Thiollay (2006a); Balanca et al. (2007); Sinclair & Ryan (2010); Pavia et al. (2012); Dowsett et al. (2013).

MUSEUM MATERIAL. — SMF 5344, 13155.

FIELD DATA. — eBird; GBIF; WABD; XC.

STATUS. — Resident; Breeding.

REMARK. — Usually treated as conspecific with M. orientalis Latham, 1801 , which is now considered an Asian endemic (del Hoyo & Collar 2014).