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Eastern forest robin
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Muscicapidae
Genus:	Stiphrornis
Species:	S. erythrothorax
Subspecies:	S. e. xanthogaster
Trinomial name
Stiphrornis erythrothorax xanthogaster Sharpe, 1883
Synonyms
Stiphrornis xanthogaster

The eastern forest robin (Stiphrornis erythrothorax xanthogaster) is a subspecies of the forest robin found at low levels in forests from Cameroon and Gabon to DR Congo and Uganda. In 1999 it was recommended that it should be treated as a separate species instead of a subspecies. IUCN and some other authorities do not recognize the split, and consequently it has not been rated as species separate from S. erythrothorax. However, it has been described as frequent to locally abundant, and is therefore unlikely to qualify for a threatened category.

References

1. ^ Collar, N. (2005). Forest Robin (Stiphrornis erythrothorax). Pp. 730-731 in: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., & Christie, D. eds. (2005). Handbook of the Birds of the World. Vol. 10. Cuckoo-shrikes to Thrushes. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. ISBN 84-87334-72-5
2. Beresford, P. & Cracraft, J. (1999). Speciation in African forest robins (Stiphrornis): species limits, phylogenetic relationships, and molecular biogeography. American Museum Novitates 3270: 1–22. PDF available.
3. BirdLife International (2018). "Stiphrornis erythrothorax". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T103763077A132191967. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T103763077A132191967.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.

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