Fiji Woodswallow / Artamus mentalis
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Fiji Woodswallow
SCI Name:
Protonym: Artamus mentalis Ann.Mag.Nat.Hist.(1), 16 p.174
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Artamidae / Artamus
Taxonomy Code: fijwoo1
Type Locality: No locality = Fiji Islands.
Author: Jardine
Publish Year: 1845
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
ARTAMUS
(Artamidae; Ϯ White-breasted Woodswallow A. leucoryn) Gr. αρταμος artamos butcher, murderer; the woodswallows were formerly known as swallow-shrikes, combining the characters of swallows and shrikes or butcherbirds (see Enneoctonus and Lanius); "129. LANGRAIEN, Artamus. Lanius, Linn. Gm. Lath. Bec glabre à la base, très-lisse, longicône, un peu robuste, convexe en dessus, un peu comprimé latéralement vers la pointe; mandibule supérieure un peu fléchie en arc, échancrée vers le bout; l'inférieure aiguë et retroussée à l'extrémité. — Bouche ciliée. — Ailes sans penne bâtarde, alongées; la première remige la plus longue. Esp. Langraien, Buff." (Vieillot 1816); "Artamus Vieillot, 1816 (April), Analyse, p. 41. Type, by monotypy, Langraien (Buffon) = Lanius leucorhynchus Linnaeus." (Mayr in Peters, 1962, XV, p. 161).
Var. Artamusete.
Synon. Angroyan, Austrartamus, Campbellornis, Cataphania, Langrayen, Leptopteryx, Micrartamus, Ocypterus, Pseudartamus.
mentale / mentalis
Mod. L. mentalis pertaining to the chin < French mental of the chin < L. mentum chin (cf. Late L. mentalis of the mind < L. mens, mentis mind).
● ex “Langrayen de Viti” of Hombron & Jacquinot 1843 (Artamus).
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)
