Mussau Triller / Lalage conjuncta
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Mussau Triller
SCI Name:
Protonym: Lalage conjuncta Bull.Br.Orn.Club 44 p. 51
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Campephagidae / Lalage
Taxonomy Code: vartri3
Type Locality: St. Matthias Island.
Author: Rothschild & Hartert
Publish Year: 1924
IUCN Status: Vulnerable
DEFINITIONS
LALAGE
(Campephagidae; Ϯ Pied Triller L. nigra) Gr. λαλαξ lalax, λαλαγος lalagos or λαλαγες lalages unidentified bird mentioned by Hesychius < λαλαζω lalazō to chirp or chirrup (cf. this name is also identified with a green tree frog); "IX. Fam. Myiotheridae. ... Lalage: Turdus orientalis Gm. enl. 273 fig. 2. u. s. w." (Boie 1826); "Lalage Boie, 1826, Isis, col. 973. Type, by monotypy, Turdus orientalis Gmelin = Turdus niger Forster." (Mayr in Peters 1960, IX, 196).
Synon. Acanthinotus, Coquus, Diaphoropterus, Erucivora, Karua, Oscarornis, Oxynotus, Perissolalage, Pseudolalage, Symmorphus.
conjuncta / conjunctus
L. coniunctus connected, joined < coniungere to unite.
● “connects in a way the Lalage aurea ... with the L. karu group ... and has characters of the L. atrovirens group ... and the Australian L. tricolor and L. leucomela” (Rothschild & Hartert 1924) (Lalage).
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)
