White-bellied robin-chat

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White-bellied robin-chat
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Muscicapidae
Genus: Cossyphicula
Grote, 1934
Species:
C. roberti
Binomial name
Cossyphicula roberti
(Alexander, 1903)

The white-bellied robin-chat (Cossyphicula roberti) is a species of bird in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae. It is found in western Cameroon, Bioko and the Albertine Rift montane forests. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. [2]

A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2023 found that the white-bellied robin-chat was sister to the mountain robin-chat. [3]

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References

  1. BirdLife International (2016). "Cossyphicula roberti". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016: e.T22709770A94222359. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22709770A94222359.en . Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  2. "Cossyphicula roberti: Classifications". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . Retrieved 2 December 2014.
  3. 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 .