Yellow-breasted forest robin

The yellow-breasted forest robin (Stiphrornis xanthogaster), also known as the eastern forest robin, is a species of passerine bird in the family Muscicapidae that is found at low levels in forests from Cameroon and Gabon to DR Congo and Uganda.^[2] In 1999 it was recommended that it should be treated as a separate species instead of a subspecies.^[3]

Yellow-breasted forest robin
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Muscicapidae
Genus:	Stiphrornis
Species:	S. xanthogaster
Binomial name
Stiphrornis xanthogaster Sharpe, 1903

Taxonomy

The yellow-breasted forest robin was formally described in 1903 by the English ornithologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe under the current binomial name Stiphrornis xanthogaster based on a specimen collected on the banks of the Dja River in Cameroon.^[4][5] The specific epithet combines the Ancient Greek ξανθος/xanthos meaning "yellow" with γαστηρ/gastēr meaning "belly".^[6]

Three subspecies are recognised:^[7]

• S. x. xanthogaster Sharpe, 1903 – southeast Cameroon and northeast Gabon to north, central DR Congo and south Uganda
• S. x. sanghensis Beresford & Cracraft, 1999 – southwest Central African Republic
• S. x. rudderi Voelker, Tobler, Prestridge, Duijm, Groenenberg, Martin, AD, Nieman & Roselaar & Huntley, 2017 – central north DR Congo