Pale Blue Flycatcher
Cyornis unicolor Blyth, 1843
Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.
Pale blue flycatcher. East Java, Indonesia
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Open encyclopedia reference
The pale blue flycatcher (Cyornis unicolor) is a bird in the family Muscicapidae. The species was first described by Edward Blyth in 1843.
It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.
It is superficially similar in appearance to the verditer flycatcher, but is paler blue, with greyish underparts from throat to vent, and a discontinuous black eye-patch. Both birds can often be found in the same locale.
Wikipedia contributors, Pale blue flycatcher; see linked history · CC BY-SA 4.0 . Plain-text lead excerpt, at most 180 words; no infobox or later sections Retrieved 2026-10-05T08:51:27.205631+00:00. This reference remains separate from the taxonomic record.
Identity & source status
- Scientific name
- Cyornis unicolor Blyth, 1843
- Name authority
- Blyth, 1843
- Common name
- Pale Blue Flycatcher
- Rank
- species
- Accepted status
- accepted
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Muscicapidae
- Genus
- Cyornis
- Extinction status
- Recorded extant
Classification family tree
Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.
- domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- subphylumVertebrata
- infraphylumGnathostomata
- parvphylumOsteichthyes
- megaclassTetrapoda
- classAves
- orderPasseriformes
- familyMuscicapidae Fleming, 1822
- genusCyornis Blyth, 1843
- speciesCyornis unicolor Blyth, 1843
Close classified relatives
These entries share the source’s genus, Cyornis. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| White-bellied Blue FlycatcherCyornis pallipes (Jerdon, 1840) | MuscicapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Blue-throated Blue FlycatcherCyornis rubeculoides (Vigors, 1831) | MuscicapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cyornis ruckii (Oustalet, 1881) | MuscicapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Matinan Blue FlycatcherCyornis sanfordi Stresemann, 1931 | MuscicapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Hill Blue FlycatcherCyornis banyumas (Horsfield, 1821) | MuscicapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Blue-breasted Blue FlycatcherCyornis herioti R. G. W. Ramsay, 1886 | MuscicapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Tickell's Blue FlycatcherCyornis tickelliae Blyth, 1843 | MuscicapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Palawan Blue FlycatcherCyornis lemprieri (Sharpe, 1884) | MuscicapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cyornis djampeanus (Hartert, 1896) | MuscicapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Pale-chinned Blue FlycatcherCyornis poliogenys W. E. Brooks, 1880 | MuscicapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cyornis rufigastra (Raffles, 1822) | MuscicapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Bornean Blue FlycatcherCyornis superbus Stresemann, 1925 | MuscicapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
Source literature & publication evidence
References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.
- https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=559670 Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references
Origins, evidence & remaining research
Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.
Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record.
Dataset citation & attribution
This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11
Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.
Stable key: col:33BBC. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.