Blue-mantled crested flycatcher
The blue-mantled crested flycatcher or African crested flycatcher (Trochocercus cyanomelas) is a species of bird in the family Monarchidae found in eastern and south-eastern Africa.
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Female photographed in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Monarchidae |
Genus: | Trochocercus |
Species: | T. cyanomelas |
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Trochocercus cyanomelas (Vieillot, 1818) | |
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Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Taxonomy and systematics
The blue-mantled crested flycatcher was originally described in the genus Muscicapa and some authorities have also classified it in the genus Terpsiphone. Alternate names for the black-naped monarch include blue-mantled flycatcher, blue-mantled paradise-flycatcher, Cape crested-flycatcher and crested flycatcher.
Subspecies
Five subspecies are recognized:[2]
- T. c. vivax - Neave, 1909: Found from Uganda and north-western Tanzania to south-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and northern and western Zambia
- East African crested flycatcher (T. c. bivittatus) - Reichenow, 1879: Originally described as a separate species. Found from Somalia to eastern Tanzania
- T. c. megalolophus - Swynnerton, 1907: Originally described as a separate species. Found from Malawi and northern Mozambique to Zimbabwe and eastern KwaZulu-Natal (north-eastern South Africa)
- T. c. segregus - Clancey, 1975: Found in eastern Northern Province and western KwaZulu-Natal (north-eastern South Africa)
- T. c. cyanomelas - (Vieillot, 1818): Found in south and south-eastern South Africa
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References
- BirdLife International (2012). "Trochocercus cyanomelas". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- "IOC World Bird List 6.3". IOC World Bird List Datasets. doi:10.14344/ioc.ml.6.3.
External links
- Blue-mantled crested flycatcher - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.
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