Cyanolanius madagascarinus bensoni Louette & Herremans, 1982
Grande Comore Blue Vanga
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
May be valid as Cyanolanius comorensis bensoni (BirdLife International, 2016).
Conservation Status
Missing (Schulenberg, 2013; Yamagishi & Nakamura, 2016) [Rediscovered in February 2010?]
Last record: August 1981
Distribution
Grande Comore, Comoro Islands
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Louette & Herremans 1982 Bull.Br.Orn.Club 102 p.133
Other references:
BirdLife International. (2016). Cyanolanius comorensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T103703653A104074965. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T103703653A104074965.en. Accessed on 09 March 2024.
Martin, Thomas E., Bennett, Gareth C., Fairbairn, Andrew J. and Mooers, A. Ø. (2023). ‘Lost’ taxa and their conservation implications. Animal Conservation 26(1): 14-24. https://doi.org/10.1111/acv.12788 [Appendix S2 (1617 taxa not seen >10 years); Appendix S3 (562 taxa not seen >50 years)]
Matthews, Thomas J., Wayman, Joseph P., Cardoso, Pedro, Sayol, Ferran, Hume, Julian P., Ulrich, Werner, Tobias, Joseph A., Soares, Filipa C., Thébaud, Christophe, Martin, Thomas E. and Triantis, Kostas A. (2022). Threatened and extinct island endemic birds of the world: Distribution, threats and functional diversity. Journal of Biogeography 49(11): 1920-1940. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14474 [Appendix S1 (.docx); Appendix S2 (.pdf)]
Schulenberg, T. S. (2016). Blue Vanga Cyanolanius madagascarinus. In: Safford R. J. and Hawkins, A. F. A (eds), The Birds of Africa. Vol VIII: The Malagasy Region, pp. Pp. 815-817. Christopher Helm.
Yamagishi, S. and Nakamura, M. (2016). Blue Vanga (Cyanolanius madagascarinus). In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (ed.), Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive, Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
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