Fulvous shrike-tanager

Fulvous shrike-tanager
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Lanio
Species:
L. fulvus
Binomial name
Lanio fulvus
(Boddaert, 1783)

The fulvous shrike-tanager (Lanio fulvus) is a South American bird in the tanager family Thraupidae. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Taxonomy

The fulvous shrike-tanager was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1779 in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux from a specimen collected in Cayenne, French Guiana.[2] The bird was also illustrated in a hand-coloured plate engraved by François-Nicolas Martinet in the Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle which was produced under the supervision of Edme-Louis Daubenton to accompany Buffon's text.[3] Neither the plate caption nor Buffon's description included a scientific name but in 1783 the Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert coined the binomial name Tangara fulva in his catalogue of the Planches Enluminées.[4] The fulvous shrike-tanager is now placed in the genus Lanio that was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816 with the fulvous shrike-tanager as the type species.[5][6][7] The genus name is derived from the shrike genus Lanius that had been introduced by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae. The specific fulvus is Latin for "tawny", "brown" or "fulvous".[8]

Two subspecies are recognised:[7]

  • L. f. peruvianus Carriker, 1934 – west Venezuela, south Colombia, east Ecuador and northeast Peru
  • L. f. fulvus (Boddaert, 1783) – southeast Venezuela, the Guianas and north Brazil

References

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Lanio fulvus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22722347A94762191. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22722347A94762191.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de (1779). "Le mordoré". Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux (in French). Vol. 7. Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale. p. 358.
  3. ^ Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de; Martinet, François-Nicolas; Daubenton, Edme-Louis; Daubenton, Louis-Jean-Marie (1765–1783). "Tangara jaune à tête noire, de Cayenne". Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle. Vol. 9. Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale. Plate 809 Fig. 2.
  4. ^ Boddaert, Pieter (1783). Table des planches enluminéez d'histoire naturelle de M. D'Aubenton : avec les denominations de M.M. de Buffon, Brisson, Edwards, Linnaeus et Latham, precedé d'une notice des principaux ouvrages zoologiques enluminés (in French). Utrecht. p. 50, Number 809 Fig. 2.
  5. ^ Vieillot, Louis Pierre (1816). Analyse d'une Nouvelle Ornithologie Analyse d'une Nouvelle Ornithologie Elementaire (in French). Paris: Deterville/self. p. 40.
  6. ^ Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1970). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 285.
  7. ^ a b Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "New World warblers, mitrospingid tanagers". IOC World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
  8. ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 166, 219. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.


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