Hook-billed vanga

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Hook-billed vanga
nesting in Anjajavy Forest

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Vangidae
Genus: Vanga
Vieillot, 1816
Species:
V. curvirostris
Binomial name
Vanga curvirostris
(Linnaeus, 1766)
Synonyms

Lanius curvirostris Linnaeus, 1766

The hook-billed vanga (Vanga curvirostris) is a species of bird in the family

montane forest
.

In 1760 the French zoologist

binomial name Lanius curvirostris and cited Brisson's work.[4] It is now the only species placed in the genus Vanga that was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816.[5]

The genus name Vanga is the Malagasy name for the species. The specific epithet curvirostris is from Latin curvus "curved" and -rostrum "billed".[6]

Two subspecies are recognised:[7]

  • V. c. curvirostris (Linnaeus, 1766) – west, north, east Madagascar
  • V. c. cetera Bangs, 1928 – south Madagascar

A 2018 study on avian skull evolution has concluded that the ancestral

neornithe had a beak most similar to this species. This suggests a similar ancestral ecological niche for modern birds.[8]

References

  1. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22708020A94146138.en
    . Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ Brisson, Mathurin Jacques (1760). Ornithologie, ou, Méthode contenant la division des oiseaux en ordres, sections, genres, especes & leurs variétés (in French and Latin). Vol. 2. Paris: Jean-Baptiste Bauche. pp. 191–193, Plate 19 fig 1. The two stars (**) at the start of the section indicates that Brisson based his description on the examination of a specimen.
  3. ^
    hdl:2246/678
    .
  4. ^ Linnaeus, Carl (1766). Systema naturae : per regna tria natura, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis (in Latin). Vol. 1, Part 1 (12th ed.). Holmiae (Stockholm): Laurentii Salvii. p. 135.
  5. ^ Vieillot, Louis Pierre (1816). Analyse d'une Nouvelle Ornithologie Élémentaire (in French). Paris: Deterville/self. p. 41.
  6. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4
    .
  7. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Batises, woodshrikes, bushshrikes, vangas". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
  8. PMID 29279399
    .
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