Calicalicus

Calicalicus
Red-tailed vanga (Calicalicus madagascariensis)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Vangidae
Genus: Calicalicus
Bonaparte, 1854
Type species
Lanius madagascariensis
Linnaeus, 1766
Species

C. madagascariensis
C. rufocarpalis

Calicalicus is a genus of bird in the family Vangidae. It contains two species, both of which are endemic to Madagascar:

Species

ImageScientific nameCommon nameDistribution
Calicalicus madagascariensisRed-tailed vangaMadagascar.
Calicalicus rufocarpalisRed-shouldered vangasouth-west Madagascar

The genus was introduced by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1854 with the red-tailed vanga as the type species. The name Calicalicus is from the Malagasy word Cali-cali reported by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson for the male red-tailed vanga.

References

  1. ↑ "Vangidae". Howard & Moore Checklist Online. Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
  2. ↑ "ITIS Report: Calicalicus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 16 December 2010.
  3. ↑ Morris, Pete; Hawkins, Frank (1998). Birds of Madagascar: A Photographic Guide. Mountfield, UK: Pica Press. p. 242. ISBN 1-873403-45-3.
  4. ↑ Bonaparte, Charles Lucien (1854). "Notes sur les collections rapportées en 1853, par M. A. Delattre, de son voyage en Californie et dans le Nicaragua". Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences. 38: 386, 535.
  5. ↑ 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. 164–166, Plate 16 figs 1, 2.