Sunbirds (Nectariniidae)

Anjouan Sunbird (Cinnyris comorensis) - HBW 13, p. 301

French: Souimanga d’Anjouan German: Anjouannektarvogel Spanish: Suimanga de Anjuán

Taxonomy: Cinnyris comorensis W. K. H. Peters, 1864, Anjouan, Comoro Islands.
Genus often subsumed in Nectarinia. Forms a superspecies with C. sovimanga and C. humbloti, and all three could perhaps be considered conspecific. Mitochondrial DNA work suggests that these three form a clade with C. coquerellii and C. dussumieri, and further suggestion is that this clade colonized Indian Ocean islands from continental Africa (at earliest 3·9 million years ago) initially through Comoros; sister-group appears to contain C. bouvieri, C. talatala and C. venustus. Monotypic.

Distribution: Anjouan, in Comoro Is.