Lesser Black Coucal

SCI Name:  Centropus bernsteini
Protonym:  Centropus Bernsteini Nederl.Tijdschr.Dierk. 3 p.251
Taxonomy:  Cuculiformes / Cuculidae / Centropus
Taxonomy Code:  lebcou1
Type Locality:  Salawati and the opposite coast of New Guinea = New Guinea; the species is not known to occur on Salawati.
Author:  Schlegel
Publish Year:  1866
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CENTROPUS
(Cuculidae; Ϯ Senegal Coucal C. senegalensis) Gr. κεντρον kentron  spur, spike; πους pous, ποδος podos  foot; "This genus is distinguished from all other members of the family by having on the hallux a long nearly straight hind claw, very much like a Lark's." (Blanford 1895).  The coucals were formerly known as 'lark-heeled cuckoos.'  The substantive 'Coucal' is derived from French Coucou  cuckoo, and Alouette  lark; "GENUS 13. CENTROPUS (κεντρον stimulus, calcar  πους pes) (Spornfuß Germ.) Rostrum capiti brevius, incurvum, valde compressum, grypanium.  Tomia integerrima.  Nares plumis recumbentibus tectae.  Lingua . . .  Cauda gradata, elongata.  Pedes scansorii, congrui. Digiti externi internis longiores, antici fissi, posticorum externus versatilis? Ungues incurvi, posticus internus reliquis aliquantum longior, retiusculus, subulatus.  Species: Cuculus Aegyptius, Tolu LinGmel." (Illiger 1811); "Centropus Illiger, Prodromus, 1811, p. 205. Type, by subsequent designation, Cuculus aegyptius Gmelin. (G. R. Gray, List Gen. Bds., 1840, p. 56.)" (Peters, 1940, IV, p. 66). 
Var. Certropus, Certtopus, Centrophus. 
Synon. Anacentropus, Centrococcyx, Corydonyx, Grillia, Huhus, Megacentropus, Nesocentor, Nisus, Onixylus, Polophilus, Pyrrhocentor, Toulou.

bernsteini / bernsteinii
Heinrich Agathon Bernstein (1828-1865) German physician, zoologist, collector (Centropus, subsp. Chalcopsitta atra, syn. Edolisoma schisticeps, syn. Eos bornea, subsp. Erythropitta rufiventris, syn. Gerygone magnirostris cobana, syn. Megaloprepia formosa, Megapodius, syn. Symposiachrus trivirgatus nigrimentum, Thalasseus).

SUBSPECIES

Lesser Black Coucal (bernsteini)
SCI Name: Centropus bernsteini bernsteini
bernsteini / bernsteinii
Heinrich Agathon Bernstein (1828-1865) German physician, zoologist, collector (Centropus, subsp. Chalcopsitta atra, syn. Edolisoma schisticeps, syn. Eos bornea, subsp. Erythropitta rufiventris, syn. Gerygone magnirostris cobana, syn. Megaloprepia formosa, Megapodius, syn. Symposiachrus trivirgatus nigrimentum, Thalasseus).

Lesser Black Coucal (manam)
SCI Name: Centropus bernsteini manam
manam
Manam I. (= Vulcan I.), Papua New Guinea.