Senegal batis [SEP] parent taxon
Senegal batis
The Senegal batis ("Batis senegalensis") is a species of small passerine bird in the wattle-eyes family, Platysteiridae. It occurs in western Africa where it is found in dry savanna and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. It was originally given the binomial name "Muscicapa senegalensis" by Carl Linnaeus in 1766.
Taxonomy.
In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the Senegal batis in his "Ornithologie" based on a specimen collected in Senegal. He used the French
in South Africa and that the two populations should be treated as sister species. The Atlantic species would retain the name "Chelon dumerili" as the type locality is Saint-Louis, Senegal while the name "Chelon natalensis" (Castelnau, 1861) or "C. canaliculatus" (J.L.B. Smith, 1935) have been suggested for the Indian Ocean taxon, although pending taxonomic revision this taxon has been designated as "Chelon" Species B. 
The specific name honours the French ichthyologist and herpetologist Auguste Duméril (1812–1870) of the