African shrike-flycatcher | |
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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) |
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Synonyms | |
Bias flammulatus |
Bias flammulatus
The African shrike-flycatcher (Megabyas flammulatus) is a species of bird in the Platysteiridae family. It is monotypic within the genus Megabyas. 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.