Sharpe's akalat (''Sheppardia sharpei'') is a species of
bird in the family
Muscicapidae.
It is found in
Tanzania and northern parts of
Zambia and
Malawi.
Its natural
habitats are boreal
forests and subtropical or tropical moist
montane forests.
Sharpe's akalat was described by the English ornithologist
George Ernest Shelley
Captain George Ernest Shelley (15 May 1840 – 29 November 1910) was an English geologist and ornithologist. He was a nephew of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Shelley was educated at the Lycée de Versailles and served a few years in the Grenad ...
in 1903. He coined the
binomial name
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...
''Callene sharpei''.
Sharpe's akalat is now placed in the
genus ''
Sheppardia'' that was introduced by the South African ornithologist
Alwin Karl Haagner in 1909.
Both the common name and the specific epithet honour the English ornithologist and museum curator
Richard Bowdler Sharpe.
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References
Sharpe's akalat
Birds of East Africa
Fauna of Tanzania
Sharpe's akalat
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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