Red-shouldered Vanga / Calicalicus rufocarpalis
WBN 
Red-shouldered Vanga
SCI Name:
Protonym: Calicalicus rufocarpalis Bull.Br.Orn.Club 117 p.5
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Vangidae / Calicalicus
Taxonomy Code: resvan1
Type Locality:
Author: Goodman, Hawkins & Domergue
Publish Year: 1997
IUCN Status: Vulnerable
DEFINITIONS
CALICALICUS
(Vangidae; Ϯ Red-tailed Vanga C. madagascariensis) French name Cali-calic, given to the Red-tailed Vanga by de Buffon 1770-1785. Recent publications give only kiboala (Milon et al. 1973) and totokarasoka (Langrand 1990; Safford & Hawkins 2013) as local names for this vanga; "b. Malaconoteæ. ... 15. Calicalicus, Bp. ... Notre genre Calicalicus, qui rappelle le nom local, a pour type la rare Pie-grièche calicalic de Madagascar, dont le mâle et la femelle sont un des plus précieux joyaux du Musée de Paris. Calicalicus madagascariensis, Bp. ex L. — Pl. enl., 299, 1, 2. — Levaill., Afr., tab. 73 ” (Bonaparte 1854); "Calicalicus Bonaparte, 1854, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, 38, p. 386, 535. Type, by original designation, Calicalicus madagascariensis (Linn.)" (Rand in Peters, 1960, IX, p. 365).
Synon. Hylophorba.
rufocarpalis
L. rufus rufous; Mod. L. carpalis of the shoulder or wrist < Gr. καρπος karpos wrist.
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)
