African shrike-flycatcher
| African shrike-flycatcher | |
|---|---|
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| Male specimen at Nairobi National Museum | |
| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Platysteiridae |
| Genus: | Megabyas Verreaux & Verreaux, 1855 |
| Species: | M. flammulatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Megabyas flammulatus (Verreaux & Verreaux, 1855) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Bias flammulatus | |
The African shrike-flycatcher (Megabyas flammulatus) is a species of bird in the Platysteiridae family. It is monotypic within the genus Megabyas.[2] It is found in Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, and Zambia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Megabyas flammulatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ↑ Harris, Tony; Franklin, Kim (2010). Shrikes and Bush-shrikes. London, UK: Christopher Helm. p. 39. ISBN 978-1-4081-3457-3.
