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Fraser's Forest Flycatcher

Fraseria ocreata (Strickland, 1844)

Source-backed taxonomic record

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.

Fraser's Forest Flycatcher  from Canopy Walkway - Kakum NP - Ghana 14_S4E2333

Fraser's Forest Flycatcher from Canopy Walkway - Kakum NP - Ghana 14_S4E2333

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Open encyclopedia reference

Fraser's forest flycatcher (Fraseria ocreata), also known as the African forest-flycatcher, is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is found throughout the intra-tropical rainforest of Sub-Saharan Africa.

Wikipedia contributors, Fraser's forest flycatcher; see linked history · CC BY-SA 4.0 . Plain-text lead excerpt, at most 180 words; no infobox or later sections Retrieved 2026-10-05T11:29:41.864187+00:00. This reference remains separate from the taxonomic record.

Identity & source status

Scientific name
Fraseria ocreata (Strickland, 1844)
Name authority
(Strickland, 1844)
Common name
Fraser's Forest Flycatcher
Rank
species
Accepted status
accepted
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Muscicapidae
Genus
Fraseria
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.

  1. domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
  2. kingdomAnimalia
  3. phylumChordata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. infraphylumGnathostomata
  6. parvphylumOsteichthyes
  7. megaclassTetrapoda
  8. classAves
  9. orderPasseriformes
  10. familyMuscicapidae Fleming, 1822
  11. genusFraseria Bonaparte, 1854
  12. speciesFraseria ocreata (Strickland, 1844)

Close classified relatives

No other member of this genus is present in the selected snapshot.

Browse 243 records assigned to Muscicapidae.

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.

  1. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=560117 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:6JMPF. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.