The São Tomé shorttail (Motacilla bocagii), also known as Bocage's longbill, is a species of passerine bird in the family Motacillidae. It has been classified as the sole member of the genus Amaurocichla, but a 2015 phylogenetic study placed it among the wagtails in the genus Motacilla.[2][3] It is endemic to the central and southern parts of the island of São Tomé.[1] Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. This species has a small population and is threatened by habitat loss.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Motacillidae |
| Genus: | Motacilla |
| Species: | M. bocagii
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| Motacilla bocagii (Sharpe, 1892)
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References
edit- ^ a b BirdLife International (2018). "Amaurocichla bocagii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22715170A131461308. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22715170A131461308.en.
- ^ Per Alström; Knud A. Jønsson; Jon Fjeldså; Anders Ödeen; Per G. P. Ericson; Martin Irestedt (2015). "Dramatic niche shifts and morphological change in two insular bird species". Royal Society Open Science. 2 (3): 140364. Bibcode:2015RSOS....240364A. doi:10.1098/rsos.140364. PMC 4448822. PMID 26064613.
- ^ Rebecca B. Harris; Per Alström; Anders Ödeen; Adam D. Leaché (2018). "Discordance between genomic divergence and phenotypic variation in a rapidly evolving avian genus (Motacilla)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 120: 183–195. arXiv:1707.03864. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2017.11.020. PMID 29246816. S2CID 3592799.
- Eccles, S. D. (1988). "The birds of São Tomé — record of a visit, April 1987 with notes on the rediscovery of Bocage's Longbill" (PDF). Malimbus. 10 (2): 207–217.
- Johansson, U. S.; Fjeldså, J.; Bowie, R. C. K. (2008). "Phylogenetic relationships within Passerida (Aves: Passeriformes): A review and a new molecular phylogeny based on three nuclear intron markers". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 48 (3): 858–876. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2008.05.029. PMID 18619860.
- Kingdon, Jonathan (1989). Island Africa: The Evolution of Africa's Rare Plants and Animals. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. pp. 37–38. ISBN 0-691-08560-9.
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