Ussher's flycatcher

Ussher's Flycatcher
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Muscicapidae
Genus:	Artomyias
Species:	A. ussheri
Binomial name
Artomyias ussheri Sharpe, 1871
Synonyms
Bradornis ussheri Muscicapa ussheri

Ussher's flycatcher (Artomyias ussheri) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Taxonomy

Ussher's flycatcher was formally described in 1871 by the English ornithologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe based on a specimen collected at Abrobonko in present-day Ghana, by the British colonial administrator Herbert Taylor Ussher, who became Governor of the Gold Coast. Sharpe coined the current binomial name Artomyias ussheri where the specific epithet was named after the collector. ^{[2] [3]} The type locality, Abrobonko, is between Cape Coast and Elmina on the lower Sweet (Kakum) river. ^[4] The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised. It was formerly placed in the genus Bradornis . ^[5]

References

1. BirdLife International (2012). "Artomyias ussheri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.{{cite iucn}}: old-form url (help)
2. Sharpe, R. Bowdler (1871). "On seven new or lately described species of African birds". Ibis. 3rd series. 1: 414–417 [416–417].
3. Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds. (1986). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 11. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. pp. 324–325.
4. Dowsett, R.J. (2005). "A supplementary gazetteer for the birds of Ghana" (PDF). Malimbus. 27: 116–119.
5. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (February 2025). "Chats, Old World flycatchers". IOC World Bird List Version 15.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 28 March 2025.