Ethiopian boubou
| Ethiopian boubou | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Malaconotidae |
| Genus: | Laniarius |
| Species: | L. aethiopicus
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| Binomial name | |
| Laniarius aethiopicus (Gmelin, JF, 1789)
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| Synonyms | |
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Laniarius ferrugineus aethiopicus (Gmelin, 1788) | |
The Ethiopian boubou (Laniarius aethiopicus) is a species of
Malaconotidae
.
It is found in Eritrea, Ethiopia, northwest Somalia, and northern Kenya. Its natural habitat is moist savanna.
Its breast and belly are pinkish. It has a narrow wing stripe, extending across the median and larger wing coverts, and often a bit onto the secondary remiges. Outer tail feathers never have white tips.
Taxonomy
The Ethiopian boubou was
monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.[4]
The Ethiopian boubou was formerly lumped with the
A
quill mite, Neoaulonastus malaconotus, has been identified as an ectoparasite of the species.[6]
It belongs to the Syringophilinae, a mite subfamily known to infect several bushshrike species.
References
- . Retrieved 11 November 2021.
- ^ Gmelin, Johann Friedrich (1789). Systema naturae per regna tria naturae : secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis (in Latin). Vol. 1, Part 2 (13th ed.). Lipsiae [Leipzig]: Georg. Emanuel. Beer. p. 824.
- ^ Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de (1775). "Le merle noire et blanc d'Abyssinie". Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux (in French). Vol. 3. Paris: De l'Imprimerie Royale. pp. 406–407.
- ^ Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (January 2023). "Batises, woodshrikes, bushshrikes, vangas". IOC World Bird List Version 13.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 25 March 2023.
- PMID 18514549.
- S2CID 35632851. Retrieved 23 January 2022.