Lowland Akalat (Sheppardia cyornithopsis) [XC554694]
by id from Mbam et Djerem National Park, WCS research station for Chimpanzee studies, main camp, Cameroon (adult, male, song)
Lowland Akalat (Sheppardia cyornithopsis) [XC554692]
by Andres Angulo Rubiano from Mbam et Djerem National Park, WCS research station for Chimpanzee studies, main camp, Cameroon (adult, male, song)
Subspecies
Previously considered conspecific with Equatorial Akalat (Sheppardia aequatorialis).
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
houghtoni Bannerman, 1931 - Sierra Leone, southern Guinea, Liberia and western Ivory Coast.
cyornithopsis (Sharpe, 1901) - Southern Cameroon and south-western Central African Republic south to Gabon and PRCongo.
lopezi (Alexander, 1907) - Northern and eastern DRCongo and western and southern Uganda.