White-throated greenbul

White-throated greenbul
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Pycnonotidae
Genus:	Phyllastrephus
Species:	P. albigularis
Binomial name
Phyllastrephus albigularis (Sharpe, 1882)
Synonyms
Xenocichla albigularis

The white-throated greenbul (Phyllastrephus albigularis) or white-throated bulbul, is a species of passerine bird in the bulbul family, Pycnonotidae. It is widespread across the African tropical rainforest. It was formerly considered to be conspecific with the Angola greenbul.

Taxonomy

The white-throated greenbul was formally described and illustrated in 1882 by the English ornithologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe based on a specimen collected in the Fantee region of central Ghana. He coined the binomial name Xenocichla albigularis. ^{[2] [3]} It is now one of 21 species placed in the genus Phyllastrephus that was introduced in 1832 by the English naturalist William Swainson. ^[4] The genus name combines Ancient Greek φυλλον/phullon meaning "leaf" with στρεφω/strephō meaning "to toss" or "to turn". ^[5] The specific epithet albigularis combines Latin albus meaning "white" with Modern Latin gularis meaning "throated". ^[6] The Angola greenbul was formally considered to be a subspecies. The white-throated greenbul is now monophyletic: no subspecies are recognised. ^[4]

References

1. BirdLife International (2016). "Phyllastrephus albigularis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016 e.T103819468A94355784. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T103819468A94355784.en . Retrieved 16 November 2021.
2. Sharpe, R. Bowdler (1881). Catalogue of the Passeriformes or Perching Birds in the Collection of the British Museum. Cichlomorphae: Part III. Containing the first portion of the family Timeliidae (Babbling-Thrushes). Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Vol. 6. London: Trustees of the British Museum (published 1882). p. 103, Plate 7. Although the title page bears the date of 1881 this volume was not published until 1882.
3. Mayr, Ernst; Greenway, James C. Jr, eds. (1960). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 9. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. pp. 268–269.
4. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2024). "Bulbuls". IOC World Bird List Version 14.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 7 September 2024.
5. Jobling, James A. "Phyllastrephus". The Key to Scientific Names. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Retrieved 7 September 2024.
6. Jobling, James A. "albigularis". The Key to Scientific Names. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Retrieved 7 September 2024.