Mountain robin-chat

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Mountain robin-chat
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Muscicapidae
Genus: Cossyphicula
Species:
C. isabellae
Binomial name
Cossyphicula isabellae
(GR Gray, 1862)
The white-bellied robin-chat. Cossyphicula roberti White-bellied Robin-chat.jpg
The white-bellied robin-chat.

The mountain robin-chat (Cossyphicula isabellae) is a species of bird in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae.

It is native to the Western High Plateau. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2023 found that the mountain robin-chat was sister to the white-bellied robin-chat. [2] Based on this result the mountain robin-chat was moved from the genus Cossypha to the genus Cossyphicula . [3]

References

  1. ↑ BirdLife International. (2024). "Cossyphicula isabellae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2024: e.T22709763A263929613. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2024-2.RLTS.T22709763A263929613.en . Retrieved 9 February 2025.
  2. ↑ 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. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107646 .{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: article number as page number (link)
  3. ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2023). "Chats, Old World flycatchers". IOC World Bird List Version 13.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 21 July 2023.


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