Long-tailed Glossy Starling
Lamprotornis caudatus(Müller, PLS, 1776)
English (US) Long-tailed Glossy Starling
The Long-tailed Glossy Starling (Lamprotornis caudatus) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Sturnidae (Rhabdornis, Starlings, and Mynas) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: far southern Mauritania to northern Guinea eastward to southern Sudan and northwestern South SudanRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Lamprotornis caudatus
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Long-tailed Glossy Starling
- Described by
- (Müller, PLS, 1776)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Turdus caudatus
- Described by
- (Müller, PLS, 1776)
- Type locality
- Senegal.
- Original description
- Des Ritters Carl von Linné ... vollständigen Natursystems Supplements- und Register-Band über alle sechs Theile oder Classen des Thierreichs p.144
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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