The green white-eye (''Zosterops stuhlmanni'') is a bird

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

in the family

Zosteropidae The white-eyes are a family, Zosteropidae, of small passerine birds native to tropical, subtropical and temperate Sub-Saharan Africa, southern and eastern Asia, and Australasia. White-eyes inhabit most tropical islands in the Indian Ocean, the ...

. It is found in Tanzania, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The green white-eye was formerly treated as a

subspecies In Taxonomy (biology), biological classification, subspecies (: subspecies) is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (Morphology (biology), morpholog ...

of the African yellow white-eye (since renamed the northern yellow white-eye) (''Zosterops senegalensis''). It is now considered as a separate species based in part on the

phylogenetic In biology, phylogenetics () is the study of the evolutionary history of life using observable characteristics of organisms (or genes), which is known as phylogenetic inference. It infers the relationship among organisms based on empirical dat ...

relationships determined in a 2013 molecular study. Four

are recognised: * ''Z. s. stuhlmanni'' Reichenow, 1892 – northwest Tanzania, south and central Uganda * ''Z. s. reichenowi'' Dubois, AJC, 1911 – east D.R. Congo * ''Z. s. toroensis'' Reichenow, 1904 – northeast D.R. Congo and west Uganda * ''Z. s. scotti''

Neumann Neumann () is a German language, German surname, with its origins in the pre-7th-century (Old English) word ''wikt:neowe, neowe'' meaning "new", with ''wikt:mann, mann'', meaning man. The English form of the name is Newman. Von Neumann is a varian ...

, 1899 – southwest Uganda:

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park The Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is a national park in southwestern Uganda. It is part of the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest and is situated along the Democratic Republic of the Congo border next to the Virunga National Park and on the edge of t ...

and above in the

Virunga Mountains The Virunga Mountains (also known as Mufumbiro) are a chain of volcanoes in East Africa, in the area where Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and Uganda meet. The mountain range is a branch of the Albertine Rift Mountains, ...

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