Ward's flycatcher
Ward's flycatcher | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Vangidae |
Genus: | Pseudobias Sharpe, 1870 |
Species: | P. wardi
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Binomial name | |
Pseudobias wardi Sharpe, 1870
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Ward's flycatcher (Pseudobias wardi), also known as Ward's flycatcher-vanga, is a species of bird in the family Vangidae. It is monotypic within the genus Pseudobias.[2] It is endemic to Madagascar. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.[1]
Its common name and Latin binomial commemorate the English naturalist Christopher Ward, who collected the type specimen of the bird.[3]
References
- ^ a b BirdLife International (2012). "Pseudobias wardi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
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(help) - ^ "ITIS Report: Pseudobias". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. p. 358.