Biology:Fan-tailed grassbird

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Short description: Species of bird

Fan-tailed grassbird
Schoenicola brevirostris 2.jpg
near Pietermaritzburg, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Locustellidae
Genus: Catriscus
Cabanis, 1851
Species:
C. brevirostris
Binomial name
Catriscus brevirostris
(Sundevall, 1850)
Synonyms

Catriscus apicalis
Schoenicola brevirostris

The fan-tailed grassbird or broad-tailed warbler (Catriscus brevirostris) is an African species of Old World warbler in the family Locustellidae. The species is closely related to the broad-tailed grassbird of India, and is sometimes treated as the same species,[1] although a 2018 study found that it and the broad-tailed grassbird were not closely related, with the Indian species being a sister of Chaetornis striata.[2]

The species has a discontinuous distribution across Africa, and is found in Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eswatini, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa , South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. It is found in grassy areas dominated by grasses, sedges or shrubs near water (streams, rivers or lakes), from 350–2,150 m (1,150–7,050 ft).[1]

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Madge, S. (2017). Fan-tailed Grassbird (Schoenicola brevirostris). In: del HoyAltouo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. (retrieved from http://www.hbw.com/node/58725 on 17 March 2017).
  2. Alström, Per; Cibois, Alice; Irestedt, Martin; Zuccon, Dario; Gelang, Magnus; Fjeldså, Jon; Andersen, Michael J; Moyle, Robert G et al. (2018). "Comprehensive molecular phylogeny of the grassbirds and allies (Locustellidae) reveals extensive non-monophyly of traditional genera, and a proposal for a new classification". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 127: 367–375. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2018.03.029. PMID 29625229. https://zenodo.org/record/2587007. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q3726383 entry