Laniarius nigerrimus

Familia: Malaconotidae
Genus: Laniarius
Species:

Laniarius nigerrimus (Reichenow, 1879)

• Dryoscopus nigerrimus (protonym)
• Laniarius erlangeri Reichenow, 1905
• Laniarius liberatus Smith, Arctander, Fjeldså & Amir, 1991

• Reichenow, A. 1879. Neue Vögel aus Ostafrika. Ornithologisches Centralblatt 4 (15): p. 114.
• Reichenow, A. 1905. Die Vögel Afrikas 3 p. 834
• Smith, E.F.G., Arctander, P., Fjeldså, J. & Amir, O.G. 1991. A new species of shrike (Laniidae: Laniarius) from Somalia, verified by DNA sequence data from the only known individual. Ibis 133: 227–235 DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.1991.tb04564.x

• Nguembock, B., Fjeldså, J., Couloux, A. & Pasquet, E.. 2008. Phylogeny of Laniarius: Molecular data reveal L. liberatus synonymous with L. erlangeri and "plumage coloration" as unreliable morphological characters for defining species and species groups. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 48(2): 396–407 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.04.014 Reference page. 
• Finch, B.W., Hunter, N.D., Winkelmann, I., Manzano-Vargas, K., Njoroge, P., Fjeldså, J. & Gilbert, M.T.P. 2016. Redefining the taxonomy of the all-black and pied boubous (Laniarius spp.) in coastal Kenya and Somalia. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 136 (2): 74-85 PDF Reference page. 

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