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Batis crypta
Fjeldså, Bowie & Kiure, 2006
Current name: Batis crypta
Paratype: ZMUC 95.263 |
Original description
See: Holotype, Batis Crypta - ZMUC 95.264 |
Additional information
The Dark Batis is known from Ukaguru Mts on the Morogoro-Dodoma border in north-east Tanzania, Kiboriani and Wota Mts (Dodoma district) in the north, through the Rubeho and Iringa highlands (Iringa) and the southern highlands near Lake Malawi (Njombe, Kipengere and Livingstone Mts, Mt. Rungwe) to the Matengo highland W of Songea and Misuku Hills in the extreme NW Malawi highlands. Also an isolated occurrence in Uluguru Mts (Morogoro). The Dark Batis occurs in elevations from 540–2,160 m and with a peak abundance in the evergreen montane forest around 1,500 m.
[Modified from: Jon Fjeldså, Bowie, R.C.K. & Kiure, J. 2006. The forest batis, Batis mixta, is two species: description of a new, narrowly distributed Batis species in the Eastern Arc biodiversity hotspot. – Journal of Ornithology 147: 578–590.] |
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Estimated African distribution:
The Copenhagen databases of African vertebrates: Batis crypta |
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