Common woodshrike, the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 27 relations: Ancient Greek, Binomial nomenclature, Carl Linnaeus, Chennai, Claud B. Ticehurst, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Flight feather, Froilano de Mello, Genus, Haemoproteus, Herbert Girton Deignan, India, Johann Friedrich Gmelin, Muscicapa, Pierre Sonnerat, Pondicherry, Species, Species description, Spirurida, Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka woodshrike, Subspecies, Systema Naturae, Tephrodornis, Type (biology), Vanga, William John Swainson.

2. Tephrodornis

Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.

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Binomial nomenclature

In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms, although they can be based on words from other languages.

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Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,Blunt (2004), p. 171.

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Chennai

Chennai (IAST), formerly known as Madras, is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost state of India.

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Claud B. Ticehurst

Claud Buchanan Ticehurst FRGS (8 January 1881 – 17 February 1941) was a British ornithologist.

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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is a member-supported unit of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, which studies birds and other wildlife.

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Flight feather

Flight feathers (Pennae volatus) are the long, stiff, asymmetrically shaped, but symmetrically paired pennaceous feathers on the wings or tail of a bird; those on the wings are called remiges, singular remex, while those on the tail are called rectrices, singular rectrix.

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Froilano de Mello

Indalencio Pascoal Froilano de Mello (17 May 1887 – 9 January 1955) was a Portuguese-Brazilian microbiologist, medical scientist, professor, author and an independent MP in the Portuguese parliament.

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Genus

Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.

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Haemoproteus

Haemoproteus is a genus of alveolates that are parasitic in birds, reptiles, and amphibians.

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Herbert Girton Deignan

Herbert Girton Deignan (December 5, 1906 – March 15, 1968) was an American ornithologist who worked extensively on the birds of Thailand.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Johann Friedrich Gmelin

Johann Friedrich Gmelin (8 August 1748 – 1 November 1804) was a German naturalist, chemist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist, and malacologist.

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Muscicapa

Muscicapa is a genus of passerine birds belonging to the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae, and therein to the typical flycatchers of subfamily Muscicapinae.

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Pierre Sonnerat

Pierre Sonnerat (18 August 1748 – 31 March 1814) was a French naturalist, colonial administrator, writer and explorer.

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Pondicherry

Pondicherry (Pondichéry) is the capital and most populous city of the Union Territory of Puducherry in India.

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Species

A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.

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Species description

A species description is a formal scientific description of a newly encountered species, typically articulated through a scientific publication.

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Spirurida

Spirurida falls under the phylum Nematoda class Chromadorea and order Spirurida. They are characterized by their elongated, cylindrical bodies and unsegmented structure.

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, historically known as Ceylon, and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia.

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Sri Lanka woodshrike

The Sri Lanka woodshrike (Tephrodornis affinis) is a species of bird in the family Vangidae. Common woodshrike and Sri Lanka woodshrike are Tephrodornis.

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Subspecies

In biological classification, subspecies (subspecies) is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed.

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Systema Naturae

(originally in Latin written with the ligature æ) is one of the major works of the Swedish botanist, zoologist and physician Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) and introduced the Linnaean taxonomy.

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Tephrodornis

Tephrodornis is a bird genus in the family Vangidae.

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Type (biology)

In biology, a type is a particular specimen (or in some cases a group of specimens) of an organism to which the scientific name of that organism is formally associated.

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Vanga

The family Vangidae (from vanga, Malagasy for the hook-billed vanga, Vanga curvirostris) comprises a group of often shrike-like medium-sized birds distributed from Asia to Africa, including the vangas of Madagascar to which the family owes its name.

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William John Swainson

William John Swainson FLS, FRS (8 October 1789 – 6 December 1855), was an English ornithologist, malacologist, conchologist, entomologist, and artist.

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See also

Tephrodornis

• Common woodshrike
• Large woodshrike
• Malabar woodshrike
• Sri Lanka woodshrike
• Tephrodornis

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_woodshrike

Also known as Common Wood Shrike, Common Wood-shrike, Tephrodornis pondicerianus.