Malayan cuckooshrike

Malayan cuckooshrike
Conservation status
Not evaluated (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Campephagidae
Genus:	Coracina
Species:	C. larutensis
Binomial name
Coracina larutensis (Sharpe, 1887)

The Malayan cuckooshrike (Coracina larutensis) is a passerine bird in the family Campephagidae that is found on the Malay Peninsula. The species was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the large cuckooshrike, now renamed the Indian cuckooshrike.

Taxonomy

The Malayan cuckooshrike was formally described in 1887 by the English ornithologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe based on specimens collected in the Larut Range, Malay Peninsula, by the naturalist and museum curator Leonard Wray. Sharpe coined the binomial name Artamides larutensis.^[1][2] The species was formerly treated as a subspecies of the large cuckooshrike (Coracina macei), now renamed the Indian cuckooshrike. It was promoted to species status based on the differences in morphology and vocalizations. The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.^[3]

References

1. Sharpe, Richard Bowdler (1887). "On a second collection of birds formed by Mr. L. Wray in the mountains of Parak, Malay Peninsula". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 3 (29): 431-443 [435].
2. Mayr, Ernst; Greenway, James C. Jr, eds. (1960). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 9. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 170.
3. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2024). "Bristlehead, butcherbirds, woodswallows, Mottled Berryhunter, ioras, cuckooshrikes". IOC World Bird List Version 14.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 3 October 2024.