Bluntschli's Vanga

The Short-toed - Kleibervanga ( Hypositta perdita ) is a now invalid Vogeltaxon, which was described in 1996 by German ornithologists Dieter Stefan Peters of the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt am Main on the basis of two full-fledged juvenile birds and assigned to the family of Vangawürger ( Vangidae ) family. 1931, the two specimens were collected by the Swiss scientist Hans Bluntschli in a forested area near Eminiminy north of the city Tolagnaro in Madagascar.

Features

The toes, particularly the rear toes are shorter than in Kleibervanga ( Hypositta corallirostris ). Therefore, the morphology of the toes suggests that the short -toed Kleibervanga was not so much specialized on climbing, as his relative.

Habitat

The habitat - primary forests and scrubland - has been heavily modified by slash and burn. In a search expedition in Andohahela National Park, where the forest area is Eminiminy, 1995 only copies of the Kleibervangas were observed.

System

In recent times came studies, including by Steven M. Goodman, to the conclusion that Hypositta perdita is not a valid taxon, but that the two juvenile birds represent abnormal copies of the Kleibervangas. Through a genetic analysis from the year 2013 to, inter alia, the Danish ornithologist Jon Fjeldså was involved, has now determined that it is in the two copies of a not yet described youth dress Weißkehlfoditanys ( Oxylabes madagascariensis ) from the family Bernieridae. 2012, the taxon has been removed from the list of valid Vogeltaxa the IOC.