Phyllastrephus

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Phyllastrephus
Brownbul Terrestrial 2010 10 02 Alan Manson Ngwenya.jpg
Terrestrial brownbul (Phyllastrephus terrestris)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Pycnonotidae
Genus: Phyllastrephus
Swainson, 1832
Type species
Phyllastrephus terrestris (terrestrial brownbul)
Swainson, 1837
Species

see text

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Synonyms
  • Pyrrhurus

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.

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Taxonomy and systematics

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

The genus contains the following 20 species: [4]

ImageScientific nameCommon NameDistribution
Tiny Greenbul iNaturalist.jpg Lowland tiny greenbul Phyllastrephus debilisEast Africa
- Montane tiny greenbul Phyllastrephus albigula Usambara and Nguru Mountains
Phyllastrephus albigularis 248368236.jpg White-throated greenbul Phyllastrephus albigularisAfrican tropical rainforest
- Angola greenbul Phyllastrephus viridicepsnorthwestern Angola
- Xavier's greenbul Phyllastrephus xavieri Congolian rainforests
Icterine Greenbul imported from iNaturalist photo 225196965 on 4 September 2024 (cropped).jpg Icterine greenbul Phyllastrephus icterinusAfrican tropical rainforest
Terrestrial Brownbul - Malawi S4E3407 (17026025436).jpg Terrestrial brownbul Phyllastrephus terrestris miombo, fynbos and east Africa
- Cameroon olive greenbul Phyllastrephus poensis Western High Plateau
Northern Brownbul - Meru - Kenya 06 8252 (16429554424).jpg Northern brownbul Phyllastrephus strepitansnorthern East Africa
- Grey-olive greenbul Phyllastrephus cerviniventrismiombo and East Africa
- Fischer's greenbul Phyllastrephus fischerisouthern Somalia to northern Mozambique
Cabani's Greenbul - Kakamega Kenya 06 1567 (16865831369).jpg Cabanis's greenbul Phyllastrephus cabanisimiombo and East Africa
- Red-tailed leaflove Phyllastrephus scandensAfrican tropical rainforest
- Sassi's olive greenbul Phyllastrephus lorenziCongo Basin (north-east)
Yellow-streaked Greenbul (or Yellow-streaked Bulbul), Phyllastrephus flavostriatus at Agatha Plantation, Tzaneen, South Africa (14514831440).jpg Yellow-streaked greenbul Phyllastrephus flavostriatus Afromontane
- Sharpe's greenbul Phyllastrephus alfredisouth-western Tanzania, north-eastern Zambia and northern Malawi
- Grey-headed greenbul Phyllastrephus poliocephalusWestern High Plateau
- Toro olive greenbul Phyllastrephus hypochloris East African montane forests
and northern Victoria Basin
- Baumann's greenbul Phyllastrephus baumannisparsely present across southern West Africa
Pale-olive Greenbul 110ND500 DSC7883.jpg Pale-olive greenbul Phyllastrephus fulviventris gallery forests of southwestern Central Africa

Former species

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:

References

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 305. ISBN   978-1-4081-2501-4.
  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.
  5. The Ibis. British Ornithologists' Union. 1906-01-01.
  6. "Chlorocichla simplex - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2017-04-16.
  7. "Thescelocichla leucopleura - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2017-04-18.