Cinereous Mourner / Laniocera hypopyrra
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Cinereous Mourner
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Protonym: Ampelis hypopyrra Nouv.Dict.Hist.Nat. 8 p.164
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Tityridae / Laniocera
Taxonomy Code: cinmou1
Type Locality: La Guyane [= Cayenne].
Author: Vieillot
Publish Year: 1817
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
LANIOCERA
(Tityridae; Ϯ Cinereous Mourner L. hypopyrra) Genus Lanius Linnaeus, 1758, shrike; Gr. κερας keras, κερως kerōs horn (i.e. bill); "Genre Laniocera. L. sanguinaria, Less. (famille des Pie-grièches). Bec droit, allongé, robuste, comprimé sur les côtés, dilaté et triangulaire à la base, à arête convexe, recourbée, crochue, fortement dentée. Mandibule inférieure redressée, échancrée à la pointe ... Tarses courts, gros, à doigts antérieurs courts, armés d'ongles crochus" (Lesson 1840); "Laniocera Lesson, 1840, Rev. Zool. [Paris], 3, p. 353. Type, by monotypy, Laniocera sanguinaria Lesson = Ampelis hypopyrra Vieillot." (Snow in Peters 1979, VIII, 192).
Synon. Aulea, Lathriosoma.
hypopyrra
Gr. ὑποπυρος hupopuros with secret fire < ὑπο hupo beneath; πυρ pur, πυρος puros fire.
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
