Fanti Drongo
Fanti Drongo
Here the details of the Fanti Drongo named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Dicrurus modestus atactus Proc.U.S.Natl. Mus. 22 p. 35
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Dicruridae / Dicrurus
Taxonomy Code: vemdro5
Type Locality: Fantee, west Africa [Ghana].
Author: Oberholser
Publish Year: 1899
IUCN Status:
DEFINITIONS
DICRURUS
(Dicruridae; † Balicassiao D. balicassius) Gr. δικρος dikros forked; ουρα oura tail; "125. DRONGO, Dicrurus. Lanius, Corvus, Linn. Gm. Lath. Bec couvert de soies à la base, robuste; mandibule supérieure un peu carénée en dessus, échancrée et crochue vers le bout; l'inférieure aiguë et retroussée à la pointe. — Queue fourchue. — Rectrices 10. Esp. Balicasse. — Fingah. — Drongo, Buff. ... Dicrurus [δικρους, furcatus, ουρα, cauda]." (Vieillot 1816); "Dicrurus Vieillot, 1816 (April 14), Analyse, p. 41. Type, by subsequent designation, ["Balicasse" of de Buffon =] Corvus balicassius Linnaeus (G. R. Gray, 1841, List Gen. Birds, ed. 2, p. 47)." (Vaurie in Peters, 1962, XV, p. 138).
Var. Dicruratus (probably an involuntary lapsus or portmanteau of specific combination Dicrurus longicaudatus Hay, 1868), Dicrourus, Dicturus (OD per Martin Schneider).
Synon. Balicassius, Bhringa, Bhuchanga, Bonaparteis, Chaptia, Chibia, Cometes, Criniger, Dicrachibia, Dicranostreptus, Dicruropsis, Dissemuroides, Dissemuropsis, Dissemurulus, Dissemurus, Drongo, Drongus, Drymonax, Edolius, Edoliuta, Entomoletes, Melisseus, Musicus, Notochibia, Prepopterus, Trichometopus.
• (Dicruridae; syn. Dicrurus † Black Drongo D. macrocercus) "Dicrurus (Auct) Bhuchanga." (Hodgson 1841); "Dicrurus Hodgson, 1841, Journal Asiatic Soc. Bengal, X (1), (no. 109), p. 29. Classical replacement name for Bhuchanga Hodgson, a local substantive name considered inappropriate by some." (JAJ 2020) (see Alcopus).
atactus
Gr. ατακτος ataktos disorderly, lawless < negative prefix α- a- ; τακτος taktos ordered < τασσω tassō to place in order.
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)