Bocage's akalat

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Bocage's akalat
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Muscicapidae
Genus: Sheppardia
Species:
S. bocagei
Binomial name
Sheppardia bocagei
(Finsch & Hartlaub, 1870)

Bocage's akalat (Sheppardia bocagei) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is found in Angola, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Zambia. Its natural habitats are boreal forests, subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical swamps, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

The common name and Latin binomial commemorate the Portuguese naturalist José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage. [2]

The short-tailed akalat (S. poensis) or Alexander's akalat was formerly considered conspecific, but was split as a distinct species by the IOC in 2021. [3] This species' name commemorates Boyd Alexander, an English ornithologist. [4]

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References

  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Sheppardia bocagei". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  2. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 57–58.
  3. "Species Updates – IOC World Bird List" . Retrieved 2021-06-13.
  4. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Birds? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. p. 22.