Many taxonomists place this species in the genus Prinia rather than in its own monotypic genus Urorhipis. rufidorsalis (Sharpe, 1897) – southeast Kenya smithi ( Sharpe, 1895) – southeast Sudan to central Somalia and north Tanzania rufifrons (Rüppell, 1840) – Chad to northwest Somalia The specific epithet rufifrons comes from the Latin rufus for "red" and frons for "forehead" or "front". The type locality is Eritrea (the coastal region of Abyssinia).
The red-fronted prinia was described by the German naturalist Eduard Rüppell in 1840 under the binomial name Prinia rufifrons. It is found in Chad, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. The red-fronted prinia ( Prinia rufifrons), also known as the red-fronted warbler and the red-faced apalis, is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae.
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