Santa Cruz Shrikebill / Clytorhynchus sanctaecrucis

Santa Cruz Shrikebill / Clytorhynchus sanctaecrucis

Santa Cruz Shrikebill

SCI Name:  Clytorhynchus sanctaecrucis
Protonym:  Clytorhynchus nigrogularis sanctaecrucis Am.Mus.Novit. no.628 p. 20-21
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Monarchidae /
Taxonomy Code:  bktshr2
Type Locality:  Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Islands.
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Publish Year:  1933
IUCN Status:  

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.

sanctaecrucis
Santa Cruz Is., Solomon Is.  < L. sanctus  holy  < sancire  to consecrate;  crux, crucis  cross.