East Coast Boubou
Laniarius sublacteus(Cassin, J, 1851)
English (US) East Coast Boubou
The East Coast Boubou (Laniarius sublacteus) 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 Malaconotidae (Bushshrikes and Allies) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: southern Somalia, Kenya, and northeastern Tanzania; ZanzibarRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Laniarius sublacteus
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- East Coast Boubou
- Described by
- (Cassin, J, 1851)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Dryoscopus sublacteus
- Described by
- (Cassin, J, 1851)
- Type locality
- East Africa? (Grant and M.-Praed restricted the type locality arbitrarily to Mombasa in 1944, and again to Lamu in 1948.)
- Original description
- Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 5 p.246
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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