The red-tailed vanga (''Calicalicus madagascariensis'') is a species of bird in the family Vangidae. It is endemic to Madagascar. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the red-tailed vanga in his ''Ornithologie'' based on a specimen collected in Madagascar. He used the French name ''La petite pie-griesche de Madagascar'' and the Latin ''Lanius Madagascariensis minor''. The two stars (**) at the start of the section indicates that Brisson based his description on the examination of a specimen. Although Brisson coined Latin names, these do not conform to the

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and are not recognised by the

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. When in 1766 the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus updated his ''

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'' for the twelfth edition, he added 240 species that had been previously described by Brisson. One of these was the red-tailed vanga. Linnaeus included a brief description, coined the

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''Lanius madagascariensis'' and cited Brisson's work. The species is now placed in the genus ''

Calicalicus ''Calicalicus'' is a genus of bird in the family Vangidae. It contains two species, both of which are endemic to Madagascar: Species The genus was introduced by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1854 with the red-tailed van ...

'' that was introduced by the French naturalist

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in 1854. The species is monotypic.

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