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African shrike-flycatcher

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African shrike-flycatcher
Male specimen at Nairobi National Museum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Aves
Order:
Passeriformes
Family:
Platysteiridae
Genus:
Megabyas

Verreaux & Verreaux, 1855
Species:
M. flammulatus
Binomial name
Megabyas flammulatus
(Verreaux & Verreaux, 1855)
Synonyms

Bias flammulatus

The African shrike-flycatcher (Megabyas flammulatus) is a species of bird in the Platysteiridae family. It is monotypic within the genus Megabyas.[2] It is found in Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, and Zambia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

References

  1. ^ Template:IUCN
  2. ^ Harris, Tony; Franklin, Kim (2010). Shrikes and Bush-shrikes. London, UK: Christopher Helm. p. 39. ISBN 978-1-4081-3457-3.

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