Talysh Mountains
Radde's accentor was described by the German naturalist Gustav Radde in 1884 from a specimen collected in the Talysh Mountains near the Azerbaijan-Iran border. He coined the binomial name "Accentor ocularis". It is now placed in the genus "Prunella" that was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Vieillot in 1816. The species is monotypic.