Biology:Yellow-breasted forest robin

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Short description: Species of bird

Yellow-breasted forest robin
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Muscicapidae
Genus: Stiphrornis
Species:
S. xanthogaster
Binomial name
Stiphrornis xanthogaster
Sharpe, 1903

The yellow-breasted forest robin (Stiphrornis xanthogaster), also known as the eastern forest robin, is a species of passerine bird in the family Muscicapidae that is found at low levels in forests from Cameroon and Gabon to DR Congo, Congo and Uganda.[2] In 1999 it was recommended that it should be treated as a separate species instead of a subspecies.[3]

Taxonomy

The yellow-breasted forest robin was formally described in 1903 by the English ornithologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe under the current binomial name Stiphrornis xanthogaster based on a specimen collected on the banks of the Dja River in Cameroon.[4][5] The specific epithet combines the Ancient Greek ξανθος/xanthos meaning "yellow" with γαστηρ/gastēr meaning "belly".[6]

Three subspecies are recognised:[7]

  • Stiphrornis xanthogaster xanthogaster Sharpe, 1903 – southeast Cameroon and northeast Gabon to north, central DR Congo and south Uganda
  • Stiphrornis xanthogaster sanghensis Beresford & Cracraft, 1999 – southwest Central African Republic
  • Stiphrornis xanthogaster rudderi Voelker, Tobler, Prestridge, Duijm, Groenenberg, Martin, AD, Nieman & Roselaar & Huntley, 2017 – central north DR Congo

References

  1. ↑ BirdLife International (2018). "Stiphrornis xanthogaster". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T103762997A132191728.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/103762997/132191728. Retrieved 3 April 2025. 
  2. ↑ Collar, N.J. (2005). "Forest Robin (Stiphrornis erythrothorax)". in del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Christie, D.A.. Handbook of the Birds of the World. 10: Cuckoo-shrikes to Thrushes. Barcelona, Spain: Lynx Edicions. pp. 730–731. ISBN 978-84-87334-72-6. https://archive.org/details/handbookofbirdso0010unse/page/730/mode/1up. 
  3. ↑ Beresford, P.; Cracraft, J. (1999). "Speciation in African forest robins (Stiphrornis): species limits, phylogenetic relationships, and molecular biogeography". American Museum Novitates (3270): 1–22. http://hdl.handle.net/2246/3048. 
  4. ↑ Sharpe, R. Bowdler (1903). "Dr. Bowdler Sharpe described four new species of birds from the Camaroons". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 14: 19. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37116811. 
  5. ↑ Mayr, Ernst; Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, eds (1964). Check-List of Birds of the World. 10. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 35. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14486224. 
  6. ↑ Jobling, James A.. "xanthogaster". The Key to Scientific Names. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/key-to-scientific-names/search?q=xanthogaster. 
  7. ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds (February 2025). "Chats, Old World flycatchers". IOC World Bird List Version 15.1. International Ornithologists' Union. https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/chats/. 

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