Nimba Flycatcher

Nimba Flycatcher / Melaenornis annamarulae

Nimba Flycatcher

Here the details of the Nimba Flycatcher named bird below:

SCI Name:  Melaenornis annamarulae
Protonym:  Melaenornis annamarulae Bull.Br.Orn.Club 90 p.146
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Muscicapidae /
Taxonomy Code:  nimfly1
Type Locality:  Grassfield, Mt. Nimba, Liberia, lat. 7° 30'' N., long. 8° 35'' W.; altitude ca. 550 meters.
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Publish Year:  1970
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

MELAENORNIS
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ Northern Black Flycatcher M. edolioides) Gr. μελας melas, μελαινα melaina  black; ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos  bird; "MELAENORNIS, n.  Melasoma a, Swains.  M. Edolioïdes, (Swains.) n.  Nat. Libr. B. of W. Afr., pl. 29.   ...   Used in Entomology." (G. Gray 1840); "Melaenornis G. R. Gray, 1840, List Gen. Birds, p. 35. New name for Melasoma Swainson, 1837, preoccupied by Melasoma Dillwyn, 1831." (Traylor in Peters 1986, XI, 296).   
Var. MelaehornisMeloenornis.   
Synon. Dioptrornis, Empidornis, Melanopepla, Melasoma, Namibornis, Sigelus, Siopornis.

annamarulae
Anna Marula Forbes-Watson née Kofsky (1941-2006) wife of British zoologist Alexander D. Forbes-Watson (Melaenornis).