Classification

Original description

Citation:
  Swainson, WJ 1832

Reference:
   Fauna Bor.-Amer. pt. 2 Birds [Swainson & Richardson] pt.2 p.122

Imprint year:
  1831

Protonym:
  Lanius elegans

Type locality:
  'fur countries . . . Hudson Bay' ; error : restricted to Tilremt, northern Algerian Sahara by Vaurie, 1955, Amer. Mus. Novit., no. 1752, p. 16.

Link:
  https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/87232#page/216/mode/1up

Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
  700490033CBA2B77

Avibase ID:
  avibase-70049003

Short link:
  https://avibase.ca/70049003

Taxonomic Serial Number:
  TSN: 920380

Geographic range:

• Lanius meridionalis elegans: northern Sahara (Mauritania to Sinai Peninsula and Red Sea)
• Lanius meridionalis algeriensis: Morocco (north of Atlas Mountains), coastal northern Algeria, and Tunisia
• Lanius meridionalis koenigi: Canary Islands
• Lanius meridionalis [leucopygos or jebelmarrae]: southern Sahara and Sahel from Mauritania to western and central Sudan
• Lanius meridionalis [aucheri or theresae]: eastern Sudan southward to northern Somalia; southern Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, and Arabian Peninsula eastward to Iran
• Lanius meridionalis buryi: Yemen; vagrant to Djibouti and Ethiopia
• Lanius meridionalis uncinatus: Socotra
• Lanius meridionalis lahtora: eastern Pakistan and northern India
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