Black-throated Shrikebill / Clytorhynchus nigrogularis

Black-throated Shrikebill / Clytorhynchus nigrogularis

Black-throated Shrikebill

SCI Name:  Clytorhynchus nigrogularis
Protonym:  Lalage nigrogularis Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt2 p.149
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Monarchidae /
Taxonomy Code:  bktshr1
Type Locality:  Levuka, Ovalau Island.
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Publish Year:  1875
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

CLYTORHYNCHUS
(Monarchidae; Ϯ Southern Shrikebill C. pachycephaloides) Gr. κλυτος klutos  splendid  < κλεω kleō  to celebrate; ῥυγχος rhunkhos  bill; "CLYTORHYNCHUS PACHYCEPHALOÏDES, sp. et gen. nov.  (Plate XIX.)  Clytorhynchus genus novum Pachycephalinarum; rostrum compressum, subdescendens, ad apicem incurvum; gonys recurvus, fortiter ascendens; remiges secundus, tertius et quartus fere æquales et longissimi.   ...   This curious species, which represents an entirely new genus of the family Pachycephalidæ, holds the same relative position to this family as the Vanga xenopirostris of La Fresnaye (Xenopirostris la fresnayus, Bon.) does to that of the Laniidæ. It is a native of New Caledonia" (Elliot 1870); "Clytorhynchus Elliot, 1870, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 242. Type, by monotypy, Clytorhynchus pachycephaloides Elliot." (Mayr in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 496).
Var. Clytorrhynchus.
Synon. Pinarolestes.

nigrogularis
L. niger  black; Mod. L. gularis  throated  < L. gula  throat.