Emin's shrike
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Laniidae |
| Genus: | Lanius |
| Species: | L. gubernator
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| Lanius gubernator Hartlaub, 1882
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Emin's shrike (Lanius gubernator) is a species of passerine bird in the family Laniidae, the shrikes. This species has a scattered distributions across Africa from the Ivory Coast east to South Sudan and Uganda.
Taxonomy[edit]
Emin’s shrike was first formally described in 1882 by the German physician and ornithologist Gustav Hartlaub with its type locality given as “Central Africa”, later determined to be Langomeri in the Nile Province of Uganda by Shelley in 1912.[2] This species has a plumage which resembles that of the Palearctic migrant red-backed shrike (L. collurio) and it was thought that Emin’s shrike was a basal member of that lineage. However, the plumage similarity does not necessarily indicate a close relationship and Emin’s shrike was found, in phylogenetic molecular analyses, to be nested within the L. collaris species complex and to be most closely related to Mackinnon's shrike (L. mackinnoni).[3] The genus Lanius, of which Emin’s shrike is a member, is classified within the family Laniidae which sits within the superfamily Corvoidea, part of the clade Corvides in the suborder Passeri of the order Passeriformes.[4]
Etymology[edit]
Emin’s shrike belongs to the genus Lanius, this name is derived from the Latin for butcher, some shrikes are known colloquially as “butcherbirds” for their habit of storing prey by impaling it on thorns or spikes. The specific name, gubernator, means “governor”, and this, and its common name, refer to Emin Pasha, the German-born Ottoman governor of the Egyptian province of Equatoria on the upper Nile.[5]
References[edit]
- ^ BirdLife International (2017). "Lanius gubernator". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T22705017A118774540. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T22705017A118774540.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
- ^ "Emin's Shrike Lanius gubernator Hartlaub, KJG 1882". Avibase. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
- ^ Norbert Lefranc (2022). Shrikes of the World (2 ed.). Bloomsbury. ISBN 1472933796.
- ^ Aggerbeck, M.; Fjeldså, J.; Christidis, L.; Fabre, P.-H.; Jønsson, K.A. (2014). "Resolving deep lineage divergences in core corvoid passerine birds supports a proto-Papuan island origin". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 70 (1): 272–285. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2013.09.
- ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London, United Kingdom: Christopher Helm. p. 120. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.