White-crowned cuckoo
The white-crowned cuckoo or white-crowned koel (Cacomantis leucolophus) is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. It was originally described by Salomon Müller as Cuculus leucolophus[1]. It was later placed in the monotypic genus Caliechthrus, but most taxonomists place it the genus Cacomantis because it has a similar song to other cuckoos in this genus and it is genetically similar to the pallid cuckoo (Cacomantis pallidus).[2] It is found in New Guinea and neighbouring Salawati Island.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Cuculiformes |
| Family: | Cuculidae |
| Genus: | Cacomantis |
| Species: | C. leucolophus |
| Binomial name | |
| Cacomantis leucolophus (Müller, 1840) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Caliechthrus leucolophus | |
References
- Müller, Salomon (1840). "Bijdragen de kennis van Nieuw-Guinea". Verhandelingen over de natuurlijke geschiedenis der Nederlandsche overzeesche bezittingen (in Dutch). 1: 22, 233.
- Payne, Robert B. (2005) The Cuckoos, Oxford University Press.
- BirdLife International 2004. Caliechthrus leucolophus.
2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 24 July 2007.
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