Ghana Cuckooshrike / Lobotos lobatus
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Ghana Cuckooshrike
SCI Name:
Protonym: Ceblepyris lobatus Pl.Col. livr.47 pl.279,280
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Campephagidae / Lobotos
Taxonomy Code: ghacus1
Type Locality: Sierra Leone ; error = Gold Coast, by designation of Bannerman, 1939.
Author: Temminck
Publish Year: 1824
IUCN Status: Vulnerable
DEFINITIONS
LOBOTOS
(Campephagidae; Ϯ Western Wattled Cuckooshrike L. lobatus) Gr. λοβος lobos lobe (cf. specific name Ceblepyris lobatus Temminck, 1824). Reichenbach's 1850, plate LIV, labelled Turdinae: Pycnonotinae, shows the distinct and large gape-wattle of the male bird; "Lobotos Reichenbach, 1850, Av. Syst. Nat., pl. 54, fig. 12, generic details only; species added by Hartlaub, 1854, Journ. f. Orn., 2, p. 31. Type, by monotypy, Lobotos temminckii Reichenbach = Ceblepyris lobatus Temminck." (Peters 1960, IX, 204).
Var. Lobotus.
Synon. Cyrtes.
lobata / lobatus
Mod. L. lobatus lobed < Late L. lobus lobe < Gr. λοβος lobos lobe.
● "78. TRINGA. ... tobata. 5. T. rostro subulato apice inflexo, pedibus virescentibus lobatis, abdomine albido. Tringa fusca, pedibus fulicæ. Edw. av. 143. t. 143. & 46. t. 46. Habitat in America septentrionali, Lapponia. Rostrum tenuissimum est; procellosa tempestate natat gregaria. ... EMENDANDA. ... pag. 148. lin. 5 tobata lege lobata." (Linnaeus 1758) (Phalaropus).
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)
