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São Tomé paradise flycatcher

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Species of bird

São Tomé paradise flycatcher
Female, São Tomé island
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Monarchidae
Genus: Terpsiphone
Species: T. atrochalybeia
Binomial name
Terpsiphone atrochalybeia
(Thomson, 1842)
Synonyms

Tchitrea atrochalybeia (protonym)

The São Tomé paradise flycatcher (Terpsiphone atrochalybeia), also known as São Tomé flycatcher, is a species of bird in the family Monarchidae. The species was described by Thomas Richard Heywood Thomson in 1842, with Tchitrea atrochalybeia the binomial and Fernando Po given as the type locality. The species is endemic to São Tomé Island. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

References

  1. BirdLife International (2018). "Terpsiphone atrochalybeia". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22707115A131453428. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22707115A131453428.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  2. ^ Thomson, T. R. H. (1842). "Description of a new species of Genetta, and of two species of Birds from Western Africa". The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Including Zoology, Botany, and Geology. 10 (64): 203–205. doi:10.1080/03745484209445224.
  3. BirdLife International, Species Factsheet Terpsiphone atrochalybeia, accessed 17 January 2019
Extant monarch flycatchers (family: Monarchidae)
Subfamily Terpsiphoninae
Hypothymis
Trochocercus
Terpsiphone
(Paradise flycatchers)
Subfamily Monarchinae
Chasiempis
(‘Elepaios)
Pomarea
Mayrornis
Neolalage
Clytorhychus
(Shrikebills)
Metabolus
Symposiachrus
Monarcha
Carterornis
Arses
Grallina
Myiagra
Taxon identifiers
Terpsiphone atrochalybeia
Tchitrea atrochalybeia


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