Mount Kupe Bushshrike / Telophorus kupeensis
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Mount Kupe Bushshrike
SCI Name:
Protonym: Chlorophoneus kupeensis Bull.Br.Orn.Club 71 p.41
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Malaconotidae / Telophorus
Taxonomy Code: mtkbus1
Type Locality: Kupe Mountain, lat. 4° 45'' N., long. 9° 40'' E., Kumba Division, British Cameroons.
Author: Serle
Publish Year: 1951
IUCN Status: Endangered
DEFINITIONS
TELOPHORUS
(Malaconotidae; Ϯ Bokmakierie T. zeylonus) No etymology given. This name may reflect the colorful plumage of the Bokmakierie (Gr. τελος telos perfect; -φορος
-phoros bearing < φορεω phoreō to carry). Swainson subsequently used Telophonus (Gr. τελος telos perfect; φωνη phōnē voice), given in allusion to the unusual duetting song of this bush-shrike; "Genus, TELOPHORUS. Rostrum sub-elongatum, sed capite brevius; culmine gradatim arcuato; vibrissæ mastacales paucæ, debiles. Pedes validi; tarsi elevati; digiti laterales æquales; ungues graciles, acutissimi. Alæ rotundatæ. Cauda gradata. Colores vividi. Type.— Telophorus collaris, SWAINS. La Backbakiri, LE VAILL. Ois. de l'Afr., ii., pl. 67." (Swainson 1832); "Telophorus Swainson, 1831, in Swainson and Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Amer., pt. 2, p. 481. Type, by monotypy, Telophorus collaris Swainson = Turdus zeylonus Linnaeus." (Rand in Peters 1960, IX, 333).
Var. Telephorus, Telephonus, Tlephonus, Telophonus.
Synon. Pelicinius.
kupeensis
Kupé Mt., Kumba Division, British Cameroons / Mont Koupé, Bakossi Mts., Cameroon.
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)
