Phyllastrephus
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| Terrestrial brownbul | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Pycnonotidae |
| Genus: | Phyllastrephus Swainson, 1832 |
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Phyllastrephus is a songbird genus in the family Pycnonotidae. They make up the typical greenbuls, though two are named brownbuls, and one is a leaflove.
Taxonomy and systematics
Extant species
The genus Phyllastrephus contains the following species:[1]
- Red-tailed leaflove (Phyllastrephus scandens)
- Terrestrial brownbul (Phyllastrephus terrestris)
- Northern brownbul (Phyllastrephus strepitans)
- Grey-olive greenbul (Phyllastrephus cerviniventris)
- Pale-olive greenbul (Phyllastrephus fulviventris)
- Baumann's olive greenbul (Phyllastrephus baumanni)
- Toro olive greenbul (Phyllastrephus hypochloris)
- Sassi's olive greenbul (Phyllastrephus lorenzi)
- Fischer's greenbul (Phyllastrephus fischeri)
- Cabanis's greenbul (Phyllastrephus cabanisi)
- Placid greenbul (Phyllastrephus placidus)
- Cameroon olive greenbul (Phyllastrephus poensis)
- Icterine greenbul (Phyllastrephus icterinus)
- Xavier's greenbul (Phyllastrephus xavieri)
- Liberian greenbul (Phyllastrephus leucolepis)
- White-throated greenbul (Phyllastrephus albigularis)
- Yellow-streaked greenbul (Phyllastrephus flavostriatus)
- Sharpe's greenbul (Phyllastrephus alfredi)
- Grey-headed greenbul (Phyllastrephus poliocephalus)
- Lowland tiny greenbul (Phyllastrephus debilis)
- Montane tiny greenbul (Phyllastrephus albigula)
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:
- Honeyguide greenbul (as Phyllastrephus indicator)[2]
- Simple greenbul (as Pyrrhurus simplex)[3]
- Swamp palm bulbul (as Phyllastrephus leucopleurus)[4]
References
- ^ "Bulbuls « IOC World Bird List". www.worldbirdnames.org. Retrieved 2017-04-04.
- ^ 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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