Biology:Sharpe's akalat

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Short description: Species of bird

Sharpe's akalat
Naturalis Biodiversity Center - RMNH.AVES.37584 1 - Erithacus sharpei sharpei (Shelley, 1903) - Turdidae - bird skin specimen.jpeg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Muscicapidae
Genus: Sheppardia
Species:
S. sharpei
Binomial name
Sheppardia sharpei
(Shelley, 1903)

Sharpe's akalat (Sheppardia sharpei) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is found in Tanzania and northern parts of Zambia and Malawi. Its natural habitats are boreal forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Sharpe's akalat was described by the English ornithologist George Ernest Shelley in 1903. He coined the binomial name Callene sharpei.[2] Sharpe's akalat is now placed in the genus Sheppardia that was introduced by the South African ornithologist Alwin Karl Haagner in 1909.[3] Both the common name and the specific epithet honour the English ornithologist and museum curator Richard Bowdler Sharpe.[2]

References

  1. BirdLife International (2016). "Sheppardia sharpei". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22709646A94217657. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22709646A94217657.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22709646/94217657. Retrieved 12 November 2021. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Shelley, George Ernest (1903). "Callene sharpei, n. sp.". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 13 (97): 60. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37116746. 
  3. Haagner, Alwin Karl (1909). "Descriptions of two new species of flycatchers from the Portuguese south-east Africa". Annals of the Transvaal Museum 1: 179–180 [180]. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50470957. 

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