Black Shama
Black Shama
Here the details of the Black Shama named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Cittocincla cebuensis ListBirdsMamms.SteereExped. p.20
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Muscicapidae / Copsychus
Taxonomy Code: blasha1
Type Locality: no locality; Cebu Island designated by Bourns and Worcester, 1894, Occ. Papers Minnesota Acad. Nat. Sci., 1, p. 58.
Author: Steere
Publish Year: 1890
IUCN Status: Endangered
DEFINITIONS
COPSYCHUS
(Muscicapidae; Ϯ Oriental Magpie Robin C. saularis) Gr. κοψυχος kopsukhos or κοψιχος kopsikhos blackbird; "Gracula Saularis Gmel., Lath., Turdus mindanensis Gmel., Lath., Turdus amoenus Horsf., Lanius musicus Raffl., Lanius Shalaris Vieill. *) ... *) Constituo ex hac ave genus distinctum Copsychum (Kοψυχος merula). Ad hoc accedunt species: Lanius jocosus (idem qui Lanius Emeria Edw. 4. t. 190. fig. e specimine manco.) — Turdus macrurus (Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. 3. t. 114.) — Turdus melanicterus Vieill. N. D. 20. p. 267. (Le Merle jaune huppé Levaill. l.c. t. 117.)" (Wagler 1827); "Copsychus Wagler, 1827, Syst. Av., note to art. Gracula, p. 306. Type, by subsequent designation (Gray, 1840, List Gen. Birds, ed. 1, p. 21), Gracula saularis Linnaeus." (Ripley in Peters, 1964, X, p. 64).
Var. Copsychum.
Synon. Copsicus, Dahila, Gervaisia, Gryllivora, Polypeira.
cebuensis
Cebu, Philippines.
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)