Arizelocichla

Arizelocichla
Olive-headed greenbul (Arizelocichla striifacies).
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Pycnonotidae
Genus:	Arizelocichla Oberholser, 1905
Type species
Xenocichla nigriceps (black-headed mountain greenbul) Shelley, 1889
Species
See text

Arizelocichla is a genus of greenbuls, songbirds in the bulbul family (Pycnonotidae). The genus was revived in 2010 when twelve species of bulbuls from the genus Andropadus were separated and re-classified in the genus Arizelocichla.

Taxonomy

A molecular phylogenetic study of the bulbuls published in 2007 found that the genus Andropadus was polyphyletic. ^[1] As part of a reorganization to create monophyletic genera, 12 species from Andropadus were moved to the resurrected genus Arizelocichla that had been introduced in 1905 by the American ornithologist Harry C. Oberholser with the black-headed mountain greenbul as the type species. ^{[2] [3]} The name Arizelocichla combines the Ancient Greek arizēlos meaning "conspicuous" or "admirable" with kikhlē meaning "thrush". ^[4]

Species

The genus contains the following 11 species: ^[3]

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
-	Cameroon mountain greenbul	Arizelocichla montana	Western High Plateau
	Western greenbul	Arizelocichla tephrolaema	Western High Plateau and Bioko
	Kakamega greenbul	Arizelocichla kakamegae	Lake Victoria region
-	Shelley's greenbul	Arizelocichla masukuensis	Albertine Rift montane forests, Eastern Arc Mountains and western Kenya
-	Uluguru mountain greenbul	Arizelocichla neumanni	Uluguru Mountains
-	Black-browed mountain greenbul	Arizelocichla fusciceps	mountains of southwestern Tanzania, northern Malawi and western Mozambique
	Yellow-throated greenbul	Arizelocichla chlorigula	Eastern Arc Mountains
-	Kikuyu mountain greenbul	Arizelocichla kikuyuensis	Lake Victoria region
	Black-headed mountain greenbul	Arizelocichla nigriceps	Albertine Rift montane forests, Eastern Arc Mountains and mountains of Kenya and Tanzania
-	Olive-headed greenbul	Arizelocichla striifacies	Eastern Afromontane from northern Tanzania to southern Malawi
	Stripe-cheeked greenbul	Arizelocichla milanjensis	eastern Zimbabwe and western Mozambique

References

1. Johansson, U.S.; Fjeldså, J.; Lokugalappatti, L.G.S.; Bowie, R.C.K. (2007). "A nuclear DNA phylogeny and proposed taxonomic revision of African greenbuls (Aves, Passeriformes, Pycnonotidae)". Zoologica Scripta. 36 (5): 417–427. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2007.00290.x.
2. Oberholser, Harry C. (1907) [1905]. "The Avian genus Blena Bonaparte and some of its allies". Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 48: 149–172 [163]. Original published as Publication No. 1588 on 1 July 1905.
3. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2024). "Bulbuls". IOC World Bird List Version 14.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 5 September 2024.
4. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 55. ISBN   978-1-4081-2501-4.

• Moyle, R. G., and B. D. Marks. 2006. Phylogenetic relationships of the bulbuls (Aves: Pycnonotidae) based on mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequence data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 40: 687–695.