Hyliotas
Hyliota
The hyliotas are a genus, Hyliota, of passerine bird from Africa. The taxonomic position of the genus has been a longstanding mystery. They have been formerly regarded as Old World warblers in the Sylviidae family, or related to the batises and wattle-eyes in the family Platysteiridae, bush-shrikes in the family Malaconotidae, or even Old-World flycatchers in the family Muscicapidae. An analysis of the mitochondrial DNA of the genus and possible relatives found they have no close...
4 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 4 known species
Yellow-bellied Hyliota
speciesHyliota flavigaster
Southern Hyliota
speciesHyliota australis
Violet-backed Hyliota
speciesHyliota violacea
Usambara Hyliota
speciesHyliota usambara
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 71703.