Species profile
Saxicola thoracica
Saxicola thoracica
Quick answer
Type locality: “ Cape ” = (Cape of Good Hope, South Africa), here changed to South Africa (see remarks).
- Scientific name
- Saxicola thoracica
- Family
- Muscicapidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Saxicola
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