Fiji Shrikebill

SCI Name:  Clytorhynchus vitiensis
Protonym:  Myiolestes vitiensis Ibis p.173
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Monarchidae / Clytorhynchus
Taxonomy Code:  fijshr1
Type Locality:  Ovalau.
Author:  Hartlaub
Publish Year:  1866
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

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.

vitiensis
Fijian name Viti for their home islands.

SUBSPECIES

Fiji Shrikebill (Manua)
SCI Name: Clytorhynchus vitiensis powelli
powelli
● Revd. Thomas Powell (1817-1887) English missionary to Samoa 1845-1848, 1854-1885, and the New Hebrides 1848-1854 (‡subsp. Clytorhynchus vitiensis).
● "I name this race after Mr. H. L. Powell, who accompanied me to Crete and prepared all my specimens" (Meinertzhagen 1920) (syn. Otus scops cycladum).
● Commander Richard ffolliott Powell (1851-1938) Royal Navy in the East Indies 1883 (subsp. Turnix suscitator).

Fiji Shrikebill (Fiji)
SCI Name: Clytorhynchus vitiensis [vitiensis Group]
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.

Fiji Shrikebill (Fortuna)
SCI Name: Clytorhynchus vitiensis fortunae
fortunae
Fortuna I. (= Futuna), Horn Is. (between Fiji and Samoa).

Fiji Shrikebill (Dusky)
SCI Name: Clytorhynchus vitiensis keppeli
keppeli
Keppel I. (= Niuatoputapu), Tonga.