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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
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
English (US)
East Coast Boubou
Described by
(Cassin, J, 1851)

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Taxonomic 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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