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Northern Crombec

Sylvietta brachyura Lafresnaye, 1839

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.

Northern Crombec - Meru Kenya 06_8244

Northern Crombec - Meru Kenya 06_8244

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Open encyclopedia reference

The northern crombec (Sylvietta brachyura) is a species of African warbler, formerly placed in the family Sylviidae.

It is found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, and Uganda.

Its natural habitat is dry savanna.

Wikipedia contributors, Northern crombec; see linked history · CC BY-SA 4.0 . Plain-text lead excerpt, at most 180 words; no infobox or later sections Retrieved 2026-10-05T05:29:51.105901+00:00. This reference remains separate from the taxonomic record.

Identity & source status

Scientific name
Sylvietta brachyura Lafresnaye, 1839
Name authority
Lafresnaye, 1839
Common name
Northern Crombec
Rank
species
Accepted status
accepted
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Macrosphenidae
Genus
Sylvietta
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. familyMacrosphenidae Wolters, 1983
  11. genusSylvietta Lafresnaye, 1839
  12. speciesSylvietta brachyura Lafresnaye, 1839

Close classified relatives

These entries share the source’s genus, Sylvietta. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.

SpeciesClassificationSource status
Philippa's CrombecSylvietta philippae J. G. Williams, 1955MacrosphenidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Long-billed CrombecSylvietta rufescens (Vieillot, 1817)MacrosphenidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Green CrombecSylvietta virens Cassin, 1859MacrosphenidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
White-browed CrombecSylvietta leucophrys Sharpe, 1891MacrosphenidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Lemon-bellied CrombecSylvietta denti Ogilvie-Grant, 1906MacrosphenidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Somali CrombecSylvietta isabellina D. G. Elliot, 1897MacrosphenidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Red-capped CrombecSylvietta ruficapilla Barboza du Bocage, 1877MacrosphenidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Red-faced CrombecSylvietta whytii Shelley, 1894MacrosphenidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant

Browse 14 records assigned to Macrosphenidae.

Documented distribution

Source distribution statements, not a complete range map. A listed locality is not necessarily a place of origin.

Africa

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. de Lafresnaye, & Nöel Frédéric Armand André. (1839). Quelques nouvelles espèces d’oiseaux. Revue Zoologique Par La Société Cuvierienne, Septembre 1839. 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:7B6QF. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.