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Lobotos

Wattled Cuckooshrikes

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ2498167 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lobotos is a genus of bird in the cuckooshrike family Campephagidae. It is sometimes included in the genus Campephaga. It contains the following two species:

References

Jønsson, K.A., R.C.K. Bowie, J.A.A. Nylander, L. Christidis, J.A. Norman, and J. Fjeldså. 2010a. Biogeographical history of cuckoo-shrikes (Aves: Passeriformes): transoceanic colonization of Africa from Australo-Papua. Journal of Biogeography 37: 1767–1781.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Lobotos” as wattled Cuckooshrikes. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Lobotos, Wattled and Cuckooshrikes.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1767, 1781—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Lobotos, Wattled and Cuckooshrikes providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Lobotos”, the useful work is to connect “wattled Cuckooshrikes” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2498167. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1767 and 1781.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lobotos” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.