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Akalat
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The akalats (stressed on the second syllable)[2] are medium-sized insectivorous birds in the genus Sheppardia. They were formerly placed in the thrush family, Turdidae, but are more often now treated as part of the Old World flycatcher family, Muscicapidae.
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Muscicapidae |
Genus: | Sheppardia Haagner, 1909 |
Type species | |
Sheppardia gunningi[1] Haagner, 1909 | |
Species | |
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The genus contains 11 Sub-Saharan forest-dwelling species:[3]
- Grey-winged robin-chat, Sheppardia polioptera (formerly placed in Cossypha)
- Short-tailed akalat, Sheppardia poensis (split from S. bocagei)[4]
- Bocage's akalat, Sheppardia bocagei
- Lowland akalat, Sheppardia cyornithopsis
- Equatorial akalat, Sheppardia aequatorialis
- Sharpe's akalat, Sheppardia sharpei
- East coast akalat, Sheppardia gunningi
- Gabela akalat, Sheppardia gabela
- Rubeho akalat, Sheppardia aurantiithorax
- Usambara akalat, Sheppardia montana
- Iringa akalat, Sheppardia lowei