Fraseria

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Fraseria
Frasers Forest Flycatcher specimen RWD.jpg
Fraseria ocreata
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Muscicapidae
Genus: Fraseria
Bonaparte, 1854
Type species
Tephrodornis ocreatus
Strickland, 1844

Fraseria is a genus of passerine birds in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae that are found in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Taxonomy

The genus Fraseria was introduced in 1854 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte to accommodate Fraser's forest flycatcher. [1] [2] The genus name was chosen to honour the English natural history dealer and collector Louis Fraser. [3]

The genus formerly include just two species, Fraser's forest flycatcher and the white-browed forest flycatcher, but based on a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2023, the genus was broadened to include other species. [4] [5]

The genus contains the following eight species: [5]

ImageCommon NameScientific NameDistribution
- White-browed forest flycatcher Fraseria cinerascens African tropical rainforest
Fraser's Forest Flycatcher from Canopy Walkway - Kakum NP - Ghana 14 S4E2333.jpg Fraser's forest flycatcher Fraseria ocreataAfrican tropical rainforest
Grey-throated Tit-Flycatcher (cropped).jpg Grey-throated tit flycatcher Fraseria griseigularisAfrican tropical rainforest
Fraseria plumbea plumbea, Buhaguzi, Uganda 5.jpg Grey tit-flycatcher Fraseria plumbeaSub-Saharan Africa (rare in southern and East Africa)
- Olivaceous flycatcher Fraseria olivascensAfrican tropical rainforest
Chapin's Flycatcher (Muscicapa lendu) JM.jpg Chapin's flycatcher Fraseria lendu Albertine Rift montane forests
- Ashy flycatcher Fraseria caerulescensSub-Saharan Africa (rare in southern Africa)
- Tessmann's flycatcher Fraseria tessmannisparsely present throughout African tropical rainforest

References

  1. Bonaparte, Charles Lucien (1854). "Notes sur les collections rapportées en 1853, par M. A. Delattre, de son voyage en Californie et dans le Nicaragua". Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences. 38: 1–11, 53–67, 258–266, 378–389, 533–541, 650–665 [536, Note].
  2. Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds. (1986). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 11. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. pp. 296–297.
  3. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 163. ISBN   978-1-4081-2501-4.
  4. Zhao, M.; Gordon Burleigh, J.; Olsson, U.; Alström, P.; Kimball, R.T. (2023). "A near-complete and time-calibrated phylogeny of the Old World flycatchers, robins and chats (Aves, Muscicapidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 178: 107646. Bibcode:2023MolPE.17807646Z. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107646 . PMID   36265831.
  5. 1 2 Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2023). "Chats, Old World flycatchers". IOC World Bird List Version 13.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 20 July 2023.