Species profile
Muscicapa molitor
Muscicapa molitor
Quick answer
Syntype: ZMB 2838, skin, female, collected by L. Krebs in Kaffernland [South Africa]. Syntype: ZMB 2840, skin, female, collected by L. Krebs in Kaffernland [South Africa]. Type locality: “ südliches Afrika ” [Southern Africa], ascertained as South Africa.
- Scientific name
- Muscicapa molitor
- Family
- Muscicapidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Muscicapa
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