Pollen’s Vanga / Xenopirostris polleni
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Pollen's Vanga
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Protonym: Vanga polleni FauneMadag.[Pollen&Dam] 2 p.174
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Vangidae / Xenopirostris
Taxonomy Code: polvan1
Type Locality: North West coast of Madagascar.
Author: Schlegel
Publish Year: 1868
IUCN Status: Near Threatened
DEFINITIONS
XENOPIROSTRIS
(Vangidae; Ϯ La Fresnaye's Vanga X. xenopirostris) Specific name Vanga xenopirostris de La Fresnaye, 1850; “la forme toute particulière de son bec une anomalie des plus étranges. Ce bec, en effet, très-élevé, mais en même temps très-comprimé, a sa mandibule inferieur recourbée dans toute sa longueur, comme celle d’une Sittine (Xenops)” (de La Fresnaye 1850); "*782. Xenopirostris, Bp. ex Lafr. (Vanga, p. Lafr.) Madagascar. 1. *VANGA XENOPIROSTRIS, Lafr. (Xenopirostris lafresnayi, Bp.) Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1850. p. 107. t. 1. 1. 2. ex Madagasc. Cinereus; subtus, cum semicollare, albus: capite, remigibusque coracino-nigris." (Bonaparte 1850); "Xenopirostris Bonaparte, 1850, Consp. Av., 1, p. 366. Type, by monotypy, Vanga xenopirostris Lafresnaye." (Rand in Peters 1960, IX, 366).
Var. Xenopictirostris.
xenopirostris
Genus Xenops Illiger, 1811, xenops; L. -rostris -billed < rostrum beak.
polleni / pollenii
François Paul Louis Pollen (1842-1866) Dutch naturalist, collector in Madagascar 1863-1866 (Columba, syn. Ninox superciliaris, Xenopirostris).
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)
