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the web of life in southern Africa

Genus: Hyliota (hyliotas) 

Life > Eukaryotes > Opisthokonta > Metazoa (animals) > Bilateria > Deuterostomia > Chordata > Craniata > Vertebrata (vertebrates)  > Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates) > Teleostomi (teleost fish) > Osteichthyes (bony fish) > Class: Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fish) > Stegocephalia (terrestrial vertebrates) > Tetrapoda (four-legged vertebrates) > Reptiliomorpha > Amniota > Reptilia (reptiles) > Romeriida > Diapsida > Archosauromorpha > Archosauria > Dinosauria (dinosaurs) > Saurischia > Theropoda (bipedal predatory dinosaurs) > Coelurosauria > Maniraptora > Aves (birds) > Order: Passeriformes > Family: Sylviidae

There are four species, all distributed in Subsaharan Africa, with two species found in southern Africa.  

Species indigenous to southern Africa

Hyliota australis (Southern hyliota, Mashona hyliota) 

 

Hyliota flavigaster (Yellow-bellied hyliota, Yellow-breasted hyliota)