Slate-colored Boubou / Laniarius funebris
WBN 
Slate-colored Boubou
SCI Name:
Protonym: Dryoscopus funebris Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt2 p.105
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Malaconotidae / Laniarius
Taxonomy Code: slcbou1
Type Locality: Meninga [Unyamwesi area of Tanganyika Terr.].
Author: Hartlaub
Publish Year: 1863
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
LANIARIUS
(Malaconotidae; Ϯ Yellow-crowned Gonolek L. barbarus) Genus Lanius Linnaeus, 1758, shrike; "128. GONOLEK, Laniarius. Lanius, Linn. Gm. Lath. Bec nu à la base, un peu grêle, convexe en dessus, droit, comprimé; mandibule supérieure échancrée et crochue vers le bout; l'inférieure aiguë et retroussée à la pointe. — Bouche ciliée. — Ailes à penne bâtarde; le deuxe. remige la plus longue. Esp. Gonolek, Buff." (Vieillot 1816); "Laniarius Vieillot, 1816, Analyse, p. 41. Type, by monotypy, "Gonolek" Buffon = Lanius barbarus Linnaeus." (Rand in Peters 1960, IX, 326).
Var. Lanairius, Lanarius, Lanirius.
Synon. Diplophoneus, Pelecinius, Rhynchastatus, Thamnocataphus.
funebrae / funebrea / funebris
L. funebris funereal < funus, funeris funeral (cf. funebria funeral rites).
SUBSPECIES
Slate-colored Boubou (funebris)
SCI Name: Laniarius funebris funebris
funebrae / funebrea / funebris
L. funebris funereal < funus, funeris funeral (cf. funebria funeral rites).
Slate-colored Boubou (degener)
SCI Name: Laniarius funebris degener
degener
L. degener, degeneris degenerate, unworthy, ignoble < de away from; genus race, kind, sort.
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)
