Ward's flycatcher | |
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Conservation status | |
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Vangidae |
Genus: | Pseudobias Sharpe, 1870 |
Species: | P. wardi |
Binomial name | |
Pseudobias wardi Sharpe, 1870 |
Ward's flycatcher (Pseudobias wardi), also known as Ward's flycatcher-vanga, is a species of bird in the family Vangidae. It is monotypic within the genus Pseudobias. It is endemic to Madagascar. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Its common name and Latin binomial commemorate the English naturalist Christopher Ward, who collected the type specimen of the bird.
References
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Pseudobias wardi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22707821A94138996. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22707821A94138996.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- "ITIS Report: Pseudobias". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
- Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. p. 358.
Vangas (order: Passeriformes · family: Vangidae) | |
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Genus | |
Calicalicus | |
Schetba | |
Vanga | |
Xenopirostris | |
Falculea | |
Artamella | |
Leptopterus | |
Cyanolanius |
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Oriolia | |
Euryceros | |
Tylas | |
Hypositta |
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Newtonia | |
Mystacornis | |
Pseudobias |
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Taxon identifiers | |
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Pseudobias wardi |
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