Andaman Drongo

SCI Name:  Dicrurus andamanensis
Protonym:  Dicrurus andamanensis Ibis p.323
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Dicruridae / Dicrurus
Taxonomy Code:  anddro1
Type Locality:  Andaman Islands.
Author:  Beavan
Publish Year:  1867
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

DICRURUS
(Dicruridae; † Balicassiao D. balicassius) Gr. δικρος dikros  forked; ουρα oura  tail; "125. DRONGO, Dicrurus.  Lanius, Corvus, Linn. Gm. Lath.  Bec couvert de soies à la base, robuste; mandibule supérieure un peu carénée en dessus, échancrée et crochue vers le bout; l'inférieure aiguë et retroussée à la pointe. — Queue fourchue. — Rectrices 10.   Esp. Balicasse. — Fingah. — Drongo, Buff.  ...  Dicrurus [δικρους, furcatus, ουρα, cauda]." (Vieillot 1816); "Dicrurus Vieillot, 1816 (April 14), Analyse, p. 41.  Type, by subsequent designation, ["Balicasse" of de Buffon =] Corvus balicassius Linnaeus (G. R. Gray, 1841, List Gen. Birds, ed. 2, p. 47)." (Vaurie in Peters, 1962, XV, p. 138).   
Var. Dicruratus (probably an involuntary lapsus or portmanteau of specific combination Dicrurus longicaudatus Hay, 1868), Dicrourus, Dicturus (OD per Martin Schneider).   
Synon. Balicassius, Bhringa, Bhuchanga, Bonaparteis, Chaptia, Chibia, Cometes, Criniger,  Dicrachibia, Dicranostreptus, Dicruropsis, Dissemuroides, Dissemuropsis, Dissemurulus, Dissemurus, Drongo, Drongus, Drymonax, Edolius, Edoliuta, Entomoletes, Melisseus, Musicus, Notochibia, Prepopterus, Trichometopus.
• (Dicruridae; syn. Dicrurus † Black Drongo D. macrocercus) "Dicrurus (Auct)  Bhuchanga." (Hodgson 1841); "Dicrurus Hodgson, 1841, Journal Asiatic Soc. Bengal, X (1), (no. 109), p. 29.  Classical replacement name for Bhuchanga Hodgson, a local substantive name considered inappropriate by some." (JAJ 2020) (see Alcopus).

andamana / andamanensis / andamanica / andamanicus / andamanus
Andaman Is., Indian Ocean.

SUBSPECIES

Andaman Drongo (andamanensis)
SCI Name: Dicrurus andamanensis andamanensis
andamana / andamanensis / andamanica / andamanicus / andamanus
Andaman Is., Indian Ocean.

Andaman Drongo (dicruriformis)
SCI Name: Dicrurus andamanensis dicruriformis
dicruriformis
Genus Dicrurus Vieillot, 1816, drongo; L. formis  shaped, formed  <  forma  shape, figure; "AFTER comparing the king-crows of the Andamans and the Cocos, allied, but quite distinct, species, with all the dicrurine birds of our part of the world, I am unable to identify them with any genus of the family which is represented in India and its dependencies" (Hume 1873) (subsp. Dicrurus andamanensis).