Dark batis (Batis crypta)

Observations

🔍 No documented observation

Description

Classification: Genus Batis (Batis); Subfamily Platysteiridae (Platysteiridae); Superfamily Corvoidea (Corvoidea); Order Passerine (Passeriformes); Class Birds (aves); Subphylum Vertebrata (Vertebrata); Phylum Chordate (Chordata); Kingdom Animal (Animalia); Domain Eukaryota (Eukaryota)
General: The dark batis (Batis crypta) is a small passerine bird belonging to the genus Batis in the wattle-eye family, Platysteiridae. It is found in highland forest in south-west Tanzania, northern Malawi, and northern Mozambique. These birds were formerly thought to be forest batises (B. mixta) but in 2006 were described as a new species based on differences in morphology and mitochondrial DNA from those birds in northern Tanzania and Kenya. [more]