Lobotos Lobatus Bird

Lobotos Lobatus Bird

Lobotos Lobatus Bird

English Name:  Ghana Cuckooshrike
Latin Name:  Lobotos lobatus
Protonym:  Ceblepyris lobatus Pl.Col. livr.47 pl.279,280
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Campephagidae / Lobotos
Taxonomy Code:  ghacus1
Type Locality:  Sierra Leone ; error = Gold Coast, by designation of Bannerman, 1939.
Author:  Temminck
Publish Year:  1824
IUCN Status:  Vulnerable

DEFINITIONS

LOBOTOS
(Campephagidae; Ϯ Western Wattled Cuckooshrike L. lobatus) Gr. λοβος lobos  lobe (cf. specific name Ceblepyris lobatus Temminck, 1824). Reichenbach's 1850, plate LIV, labelled Turdinae: Pycnonotinae, shows the distinct and large gape-wattle of the male bird; "Lobotos Reichenbach, 1850, Av. Syst. Nat., pl. 54, fig. 12, generic details only; species added by Hartlaub, 1854, Journ. f. Orn., 2, p. 31. Type, by monotypy, Lobotos temminckii Reichenbach = Ceblepyris lobatus Temminck." (Peters 1960, IX, 204).
Var. Lobotus.
Synon. Cyrtes.

lobata / lobatus
Mod. L. lobatus lobed < Late L. lobus lobe < Gr. λοβος lobos lobe.
● "78. TRINGA.  ...  tobata.  5. T. rostro subulato apice inflexo, pedibus virescentibus lobatis, abdomine albido.  Tringa fusca, pedibus fulicæ. Edw. av. 143. t. 143. & 46. t. 46.  Habitat in America septentrionali, Lapponia.  Rostrum tenuissimum est; procellosa tempestate natat gregaria.   ...   EMENDANDA.  ...  pag. 148. lin. 5    tobata lege lobata." (Linnaeus 1758) (Phalaropus).