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Sheppardia gunningi alticola
Fjeldså, Roy & Kiure, 2000
Current name: Sheppardia gunningi alticola
Holotype: ZMUC 92.216 |
Original description
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A new montane subspecies of Sheppardia gunningi
(East-coast Akalat) from Tanzania |
Additional information
The East Coast Akalat is a vulnerable species restricted to a few coastal forests in Kenya and Tanzania (subspecies sokokensis), an isolated population on the coast of central Mozambique (the nominate form), submontane populations in Malawi (subspecies bensoni), and the montane subspecies alticola on Nguu Mountain in Tanzania. In southeast Tanzania the East Coast Akalat is only known from four coastal forests: Rondo, Litipo, Chitoa and Ruawa.
The East Coast Akalat is found to be sensitive to habitat structure and disturbance in coastal forests in Kenya, while it has been found in a range of habitats from tall, little-disturbed forest to heavily disturbed evergreen thickets and secondary growth regenerating after logging in the East Usambaras. Although the habitat preference of this species has not been studied in Tanzania, a high dependency on primary forest is very likely.
[Modified from: Jensen, F.P.; Tøttrup, A.P. & Christensen, K.D. 2005. The avifauna of coastal forests in southeast Tanzania. Scopus 25: 1-22.] |
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Estimated African distribution:
The Copenhagen databases of African vertebrates: Sheppardia gunningi alticola |
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