Erythrocercus is a genus of birds containing three flycatchers that are found in Africa.
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| Chestnut-capped flycatcher E. mccallii nigeriae | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Erythrocercidae Fregin, Haase, Olsson & Alström, 2012 |
| Genus: | Erythrocercus Hartlaub, 1857 |
| Type species | |
| Pycnophrys mccallii[1] Cassin, 1855
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The genus is placed in its own family Erythrocercidae that was introduced by Silke Fregin and collaborators in 2012.[2]
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| Cladogram showing the family relationships based on a study by Carl Oliveros and colleagues published in 2019.[3] The number of species is taken from the bird list maintained by Frank Gill, Pamela Rasmussen and David Donsker on behalf of the International Ornithological Committee (IOC).[4] |
Species
editThe genus contains the following species:[4]
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Little yellow flycatcher | Erythrocercus holochlorus | Kenya, Somalia, and Tanzania. |
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Livingstone's flycatcher | Erythrocercus livingstonei | Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. |
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Chestnut-capped flycatcher | Erythrocercus mccallii | Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Uganda. |
References
edit- ^ "Scotocercidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
- ^ Fregin, Silke; Haase, Martin; Olsson, Urban; Alström, Per (2012). "New insights into family relationships within the avian superfamily Sylvioidea (Passeriformes) based on seven molecular markers". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 12 (Article 157): 1–12. Bibcode:2012BMCEE..12..157F. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-12-157. PMC 3462691. PMID 22920688.
- ^ Oliveros, C.H.; et al. (2019). "Earth history and the passerine superradiation". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 116 (16): 7916–7925. Bibcode:2019PNAS..116.7916O. doi:10.1073/pnas.1813206116. PMC 6475423. PMID 30936315.
- ^ a b Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2021). "IOC World Bird List Version 11.2". International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 9 December 2021.
- "Erythrocercus Hartlaub, 1857". ITIS. Retrieved 2010-08-27.
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