Zamboanga bulbul

Zamboanga bulbul
	Illustration by Keulemans, 1881
Conservation status
	; Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Pycnonotidae
Genus:	Hypsipetes (but see text)
Species:	H. rufigularis
Binomial name
	Hypsipetes rufigularis; (Sharpe, 1877)
Synonyms
	Iole rufigularis; Ixos rufigularis;

The Zamboanga bulbul (Hypsipetes rufigularis) is a songbird species in the bulbul family (Pycnonotidae).

It was one of the species of Ixos that now usually warrants inclusion in the genus Hypsipetes – as long as this is kept separate from Ixos – as it may be a close relative of the Philippine bulbul (H. philippinensis), which in turn is closely related to the type species of Hypsipetes, the black bulbul (H. leucocephalus).^[2]

It is endemic to the Philippines, where its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is becoming rare due to habitat loss.^[3]

Footnotes

^ Template:IUCN
^ Gregory (2000), Pasquet et al. (2001), Moyle & Marks (2006)
^ BLI (2008)

References

Gregory, Steven M. (2000): Nomenclature of the Hypsipetes Bulbuls (Pycnonotidae). Forktail 16: 164-166. PDF fulltext
Moyle, Robert G. & Marks, Ben D. (2006): Phylogenetic relationships of the bulbuls (Aves: Pycnonotidae) based on mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequence data. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 40(3): 687-695. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2006.04.015 (HTML abstract)
Pasquet, Éric; Han, Lian-Xian; Khobkhet, Obhas & Cibois, Alice (2001): Towards a molecular systematics of the genus Criniger, and a preliminary phylogeny of the bulbuls (Aves, Passeriformes, Pycnonotidae). Zoosystema 23(4): 857-863. PDF fulltext

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[1] Template:IUCN

[2] Gregory (2000), Pasquet et al. (2001), Moyle & Marks (2006)

[3] BLI (2008)

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