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Maroon-breasted Philentoma

Male
Information
Range Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, and Thailand.
Scientific Classification
Kingdom Animalia
Class Aves
Order Passeriformes
Family Tephrodornithidae (see text)
Genus Philentoma
Species Philentoma velata
Conservation Status

Near Threatened

The Maroon-breasted philentoma (Philentoma velata), is a species of passerine. Long placed in the Muscicapidae (Old World flycatchers) family when these were used as a "wastebin taxon", they are now tentatively assigned to the Tephrodornithidae pending detailed study. It is found in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, and Thailand. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical swamps. It is threatened by habitat loss.