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The Plaintive cuckoo (Cacomantis merulinus) belongs to the family of cuckoos, roadrunners, koels and malkohas, the Cuculidae under the order Cuculiformes.
Plaintive cuckoo taxonomy
The Cuculidae is the family of cuckoos, roadrunners, koels and malkohas. The family Cuculidae was first introduced by William Elford Leach, MD, FRS (2 February 1791 – 25 August 1836), an English zoologist and marine biologist, in the year 1820.The family Cuculidae comprises six subfamilies, including Cuculinae (brood-parasitic cuckoos). The subfamily Cuculinae comprises twelve extant genera, including Cacomantis (barred-tail cuckoos).
The genus Cacomantis was first described by Dr. Salomon Müller (7 April 1804 – 29 December 1864), a German naturalist, in the year 1843. The genus Cacomantis comprises ten extant species, including Cacomantis merulinus.
The species Cacomantis merulinus was first described by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (3 June 1723 – 8 May 1788), an Italian physician and naturalist, in the year 1786.
The species Cacomantis merulinus is polytypic and comprises four subspecies, viz., C. m. querulus Heine, 1863, C. m. threnodes Cabanis & Heine, 1863, C. m. lanceolatus (S. Müller, 1843) and C. m. merulinus (Scopoli, 1786).
| Taxonomic classification | |
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| Binomial name: | Cacomantis merulinus |
| Species: | C. merulinus |
| Genus: | Cacomantis |
| Subfamily: | - |
| Family: | Cuculidae |
| Order: | Cuculiformes |
| Class: | Aves |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
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| 1.Plaintive cuckoo - Cacomantis merulinus Image by Alnus |
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| 2.Plaintive cuckoo - Cacomantis merulinus Image by Ron Knight |
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| 3.Plaintive cuckoo - Cacomantis merulinus Image by Ron Knight |
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| 4.Plaintive cuckoo - Cacomantis merulinus Image by Ariefrahman |
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| 5.Plaintive cuckoo - Cacomantis merulinus Image by Charles Lam |
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| 6.Plaintive cuckoo - Cacomantis merulinus Image by sfitzgerald86 |
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| 7.Plaintive cuckoo - Cacomantis merulinus Image by Lip Kee |
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| 8.Plaintive cuckoo - Cacomantis merulinus Image by Lip Kee |
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| 9.Plaintive cuckoo juvenile - Cacomantis merulinus Image by J.M.Garg |
1.Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plaintive_Cuckoo_2850_(cropped).jpg (cropped)
Author: Alnus | License: CC BY-SA 3.0 as on 9/8/18
2.Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/sussexbirder/8080154310/in/photostream/ (cropped)
Author: Ron Knight | License: CC BY 2.0 as on 9/8/18
3.Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/sussexbirder/8080154600/ (cropped)
Author: Ron Knight | License: CC BY 2.0 as on 9/8/18
4.Image source: https://en.wikipedia.org/ (cropped)
Author: Ariefrahman | License: CC BY-SA 3.0 as on 9/8/18
5.Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kclama/6397045137/in/photostream/ (cropped)
Author: Charles Lam | License: CC BY-SA 2.0 as on 9/8/18
6.Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/sfitzgerald86/3304352869/in/photostream/ (cropped)
Author: sfitzgerald86 | License: CC BY-nc 2.0 as on 9/8/18
7.Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/lipkee/2436138459/ (cropped)
Author: Lip Kee | License: CC BY-SA 2.0 as on 9/8/18
8.Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/lipkee/2436138605/ (cropped)
Author: Lip Kee | License: CC BY-SA 2.0 as on 9/8/18
9.Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/ (cropped)
Author: J.M.Garg | License: CC BY-SA 3.0 as on 9/8/18
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