Short-tailed Akalat (Sheppardia poensis) [XC83837]
by id from Mahale Mountains National Park, Mfitwa Forest [29.80622, 6.13998], Tanzania (song, territorial song)
Short-tailed Akalat (Sheppardia poensis) [XC209747]
by Jacob C. Cooper from BBPP Field Station, Moka, Bioko Sur, Equatorial Guinea (song)
Subspecies
Short-tailed Akalat (Sheppardia poensis) and Bocage's Akalat (Sheppardia bocagei) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) have been lumped into Sheppardia bocagei following Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993).
Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Bocage's Akalat (Sheppardia bocagei).