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| Phyllastrephus | |
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| Terrestrial brownbul (Phyllastrephus terrestris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Pycnonotidae |
| Genus: | Phyllastrephus Swainson, 1832 |
| Type species | |
| Phyllastrephus terrestris (terrestrial brownbul) Swainson, 1837 | |
| Species | |
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| Synonyms | |
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Phyllastrephus is a songbird genus in the bulbul family Pycnonotidae. Most of the species in the genus are typical greenbuls, though two are brownbuls, and one is a leaflove.
Taxonomy and systematics
[edit]The genus Phyllastrephus was introduced by the English naturalist William Swainson in 1832 with Le Jaboteur (Levaillant), now the terrestrial brownbul, as the type species.[1][2] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek phullon meaning "leaf" with strephō meaning "to toss" or "to turn".[3]
Species
[edit]The genus contains the following 20 species:[4]
| Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Lowland tiny greenbul | Phyllastrephus debilis | East Africa |
 | Montane tiny greenbul | Phyllastrephus albigula | Usambara and Nguru Mountains |
 | White-throated greenbul | Phyllastrephus albigularis | African tropical rainforest |
| - | Angola greenbul | Phyllastrephus viridiceps | northwestern Angola |
| - | Xavier's greenbul | Phyllastrephus xavieri | Congolian rainforests |
.jpg) | Icterine greenbul | Phyllastrephus icterinus | African tropical rainforest |
.jpg) | Terrestrial brownbul | Phyllastrephus terrestris | miombo, fynbos and east Africa |
 | Cameroon olive greenbul | Phyllastrephus poensis | Western High Plateau |
.jpg) | Northern brownbul | Phyllastrephus strepitans | northern East Africa |
 | Grey-olive greenbul | Phyllastrephus cerviniventris | miombo and East Africa |
_-_Pycnonotidae_-_bird_skin_specimen.jpeg) | Fischer's greenbul | Phyllastrephus fischeri | southern Somalia to northern Mozambique |
.jpg) | Cabanis's greenbul | Phyllastrephus cabanisi | miombo and East Africa |
 | Red-tailed leaflove | Phyllastrephus scandens | African tropical rainforest |
_(18173983286),_Phyllastrephus_lorenzi.jpg){kind=small} | Sassi's olive greenbul | Phyllastrephus lorenzi | Congo Basin (north-east) |
,_Phyllastrephus_flavostriatus_at_Agatha_Plantation,_Tzaneen,_South_Africa_(14514831440).jpg) | Yellow-streaked greenbul | Phyllastrephus flavostriatus | Afromontane |
| - | Sharpe's greenbul | Phyllastrephus alfredi | south-western Tanzania, north-eastern Zambia and northern Malawi |
 | Grey-headed greenbul | Phyllastrephus poliocephalus | Western High Plateau |
 | Toro olive greenbul | Phyllastrephus hypochloris | East African montane forests and northern Victoria Basin |
| - | Baumann's greenbul | Phyllastrephus baumanni | sparsely present across southern West Africa |
 | Pale-olive greenbul | Phyllastrephus fulviventris | gallery forests of southwestern Central Africa |
Former species
[edit]Several species from Madagascar that were formerly placed in the genus Phyllastrephus have now been moved into Bernieria and Xanthomixis. Commonly called the Bernieria and the tetrakas, these species are not bulbuls but Malagasy warblers similar to greenbuls due to convergent evolution. Formerly, some authorities also considered the following species (or subspecies) as species within the genus Phyllastrephus:
- Honeyguide greenbul (as Phyllastrephus indicator)[5]
- Simple greenbul (as Pyrrhurus simplex)[6]
- Swamp palm bulbul (as Phyllastrephus leucopleurus)[7]
References
[edit]- ↑ Swainson, William; Richardson, J. (1831). Fauna Boreali-Americana, or, The Zoology of the Northern Parts of British America. Vol. Part 2. The Birds. London: J. Murray. p. 486. The title page bears the year 1831 but the volume did not appear until 1832.
- ↑ Mayr, Ernst; Greenway, James C. Jr, eds. (1960). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 9. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 263.
- ↑ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 305. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (February 2025). "Bulbuls". IOC World Bird List Version 15.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 6 March 2025.
- ↑ The Ibis. British Ornithologists' Union. 1906-01-01.
- ↑ "Chlorocichla simplex - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2017-04-16.
- ↑ "Thescelocichla leucopleura - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2017-04-18.
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