
Eurocephalus
Sign in to saveEurocephalus is a small genus of passerine birds containing two species commonly known as white-crowned shrikes.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderPasseriformes
- FamilyLaniidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 2
- Family
- Laniidae
- Collections
- UMZC, SDNHM
- Recorded in
- South-West Africa [Namibia]
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Extant Species
- Description
- Taxonomy
- Etymology
- References
Eurocephalus is a small genus of passerine birds containing two species commonly known as white-crowned shrikes.
==Extant Species== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Scientific name !! Common name !! Distribution |- | 120px|| Eurocephalus ruppelli||Northern white-crowned shrike or white-rumped shrike ||east Africa from south eastern South Sudan and southern Ethiopia to Tanzania |- | 120px|| Eurocephalus anguitimens ||Southern white-crowned shrike or white-crowned shrike|| Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. |- |}
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Eurocephalus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.