Southern Black Flycatcher
Melaenornis pammelaina(Stanley, ES, 1814)
English (US) Southern Black Flycatcher
The Southern Black Flycatcher (Melaenornis pammelaina) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Muscicapidae (Chats, Old World Flycatchers, and Allies) in the order Passeriformes.
- Scientific name
- Melaenornis pammelaina
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Southern Black Flycatcher
- Described by
- (Stanley, ES, 1814)
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The AviList checklist recognises 2 subspecies for this species.
- Melaenornis pammelaina pammelaina
- Melaenornis pammelaina diabolicus
Taxonomic history
- First described as
- Sylvia pammelaina
- Described by
- (Stanley, ES, 1814)
- Type locality
- no locality; probably from Mozambique, fide W. L. Sclater, 1930, Syst. Avium Aethiopicarum, p. 410; restricted to Mozambique town by Lawson, 1964, Durban Mus. Novit., 7, p. 142.
- Original description
- A voyage to Abyssinia, and travels into the interior of that country, executed under the orders of the British government, in the years 1809 and 1810 (etc.) App. p.lix
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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