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White-crowned cuckoo

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White-crowned cuckoo
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Cuculiformes
Family: Cuculidae
Genus: Caliechthrus
Cabanis & Heine 1862
Species:
C. leucolophus
Binomial name
Caliechthrus leucolophus
(Müller, S, 1840)
Synonyms

Cacomantis leucolophus

The white-crowned cuckoo or white-crowned koel (Caliechthrus leucolophus) is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. It was formerly placed in the genus Cacomantis but is now the only species placed in the genus Caliechthrus. It is found in New Guinea and neighbouring Salawati Island.

It was originally described in 1840 by the German naturalist Salomon Müller as Cuculus leucolophus.[2][3]


References

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  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Caliechthrus leucolophus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22684032A93012243. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22684032A93012243.en.
  2. ^ Müller, Salomon (1840). "Bijdragen tot de kennis van Nieuw-Guinea". Verhandelingen over de Natuurlijke Geschiedenis der Nederlandsche Overzeesche Bezittingen (in Dutch). Vol. 1. Land-en Volkenkunde. Leiden: In commissie bij. S. en J. Luchtmans en C.C. van der Hoek. pp. 22, 233.
  3. ^ Peters, James Lee, ed. (1940). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 4. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 35.