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A New Species Of Boubou (Malaconotidae: Laniarius) From The Albertine Rift, Gary Voelker, Robert Outlaw, Sushma Reddy, Michael Tobler, John Bates, Shannon Hackett, Charles Kahindo, Ben Marks, Julian Kerbis Peterhans, Thomas Gnoske
A New Species Of Boubou (Malaconotidae: Laniarius) From The Albertine Rift, Gary Voelker, Robert Outlaw, Sushma Reddy, Michael Tobler, John Bates, Shannon Hackett, Charles Kahindo, Ben Marks, Julian Kerbis Peterhans, Thomas Gnoske
Sushma Reddy
We describe Laniarius willardi, a new species of boubou shrike (Malaconotidae) from the Albertine Rift of Africa. The most conspicuous, distinguishing morphological feature of the species is a gray to blue-gray iris. This and external morphometric data indicate that L. willardi is diagnosable from other black or sooty boubous. Further, L. willardi is genetically diagnosable, and its closest relative is the Mountain Sooty Boubou (L. poensis camerunensis) from Cameroon. The Crimson-breasted Bush-shrike (L. atrococcineus) and the Lowland Sooty Boubou (L. leucorhynchus) are together the sister clade to L. willardi—L.p. camerunensis. Laniarius willardi and the geographically codistributed L. p. holomelas differ …