Chamaetylas
| Chamaetylas | |
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| Brown-chested alethe, Chamaetylas poliocephala | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Muscicapidae |
| Genus: | Chamaetylas Heine, 1860 |
| Type species | |
| Geocichla compsonota[1] Cassin, 1859
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| Species | |
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| Synonyms | |
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Pseudalethe | |
Chamaetylas is a
Muscicapidae
that are native to sub-Saharan Africa.
The genus was introduced by the German ornithologist
polyphyletic and that the members of both clades were better placed in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae.[5][6]
The genus contains four species:[7]
- Red-throated alethe, Chamaetylas poliophrys
- White-chested alethe, Chamaetylas fuelleborni
- Brown-chested alethe, Chamaetylas poliocephala
- Thyolo alethe, Chamaetylas choloensis
References
- ^ "Muscicapidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
- ^ Heine, Ferdinand (1860). "Neue bisher unbeschriebene Arten". Journal für Ornithologie (in German). 7: 425. The title page gives the year 1859 but page 463 has the date 22 January 1860.
- ^ Mayr, Ernst; Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, eds. (1964). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 10. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 61.
- ISBN 978-0-9568611-2-2.
- PMID 20656044.
- S2CID 85963319.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David (eds.). "Chats, Old World flycatchers". World Bird List Version 6.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 20 May 2016.