Rennell Shrikebill / Clytorhynchus hamlini

Rennell Shrikebill / Clytorhynchus hamlini

Rennell Shrikebill

SCI Name:  Clytorhynchus hamlini
Protonym:  Pinarolestes hamlini Am.Mus.Novit. no.486 p.23
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Monarchidae /
Taxonomy Code:  renshr1
Type Locality:  Rennell Island.
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Publish Year:  1931
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

CLYTORHYNCHUS
(Monarchidae; Ϯ Southern Shrikebill C. pachycephaloides) Gr. κλυτος klutos  splendid  < κλεω kleō  to celebrate; ῥυγχος rhunkhos  bill; "CLYTORHYNCHUS PACHYCEPHALOÏDES, sp. et gen. nov.  (Plate XIX.)  Clytorhynchus genus novum Pachycephalinarum; rostrum compressum, subdescendens, ad apicem incurvum; gonys recurvus, fortiter ascendens; remiges secundus, tertius et quartus fere æquales et longissimi.   ...   This curious species, which represents an entirely new genus of the family Pachycephalidæ, holds the same relative position to this family as the Vanga xenopirostris of La Fresnaye (Xenopirostris la fresnayus, Bon.) does to that of the Laniidæ. It is a native of New Caledonia" (Elliot 1870); "Clytorhynchus Elliot, 1870, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 242. Type, by monotypy, Clytorhynchus pachycephaloides Elliot." (Mayr in Peters, 1986, XI, p. 496).
Var. Clytorrhynchus.
Synon. Pinarolestes.

hamlini
Dr Hannibal Hamlin (1904-1982) US Navy, neurosurgeon, collector in the Pacific (Clytorhynchus, subsp. Phylloscopus poliocephalus, Zosterops).