Sharpe's akalat
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 | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Muscicapidae |
| Genus: | Sheppardia |
| Species: | S. sharpei |
| Binomial name | |
| Sheppardia sharpei (Shelley, 1903) | |
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
- BirdLife International (2012). "Sheppardia sharpei". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Shelley, George Ernest (1903). "Callene sharpei, n. sp". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 13 (97): 60.
- 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].
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