Calicalicus
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Calicalicus | |
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Red-tailed vanga (Calicalicus madagascariensis) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Vangidae |
Genus: | Calicalicus Bonaparte, 1854 |
Type species | |
Lanius madagascariensis[1] Linnaeus, 1766
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Species | |
C. madagascariensis |
Calicalicus is a genus of bird in the family Vangidae. It contains two species,[2] both of which are endemic to Madagascar:[3]
Species
Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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Calicalicus madagascariensis | Red-tailed vanga | Madagascar. | |
Calicalicus rufocarpalis | Red-shouldered vanga | south-west Madagascar |
The genus was introduced by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1854 with the red-tailed vanga as the type species.[4] The name Calicalicus is from the Malagasy word Cali-cali reported by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson for the male red-tailed vanga.[5]
References
- ^ "Vangidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
- ^ "ITIS Report: Calicalicus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 16 December 2010.
- ^ Morris, Pete; Hawkins, Frank (1998). Birds of Madagascar: A Photographic Guide. Mountfield, UK: Pica Press. p. 242. ISBN 1-873403-45-3.
- ^ Bonaparte, Charles Lucien (1854). "Notes sur les collections rapportées en 1853, par M. A. Delattre, de son voyage en Californie et dans le Nicaragua". Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences. 38: 386, 535.
- ^ Brisson, Mathurin Jacques (1760). Ornithologie, ou, Méthode contenant la division des oiseaux en ordres, sections, genres, especes & leurs variétés (in French and Latin). Vol. 2. Paris: Jean-Baptiste Bauche. pp. 164–166, Plate 16 figs 1, 2.
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