Arizelocichla
| Arizelocichla | |
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| Stripe-faced greenbul (Arizelocichla striifacies). | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Infraorder: | Passerides |
| Family: | Pycnonotidae |
| Genus: | Arizelocichla Oberholser, 1905 |
| Type species | |
| Xenocichla nigriceps (mountain greenbul) Shelley, 1889
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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.[1]
Taxonomy
The genus Arizelocichla was introduced in 1905 by the American ornithologist Harry C. Oberholser with the mountain greenbul as the type species.[2] The name combines the Ancient Greek arizēlos meaning "conspicuous" or "admirable" with kikhlē meaning "thrush".[3]
Based on the results of a molecular phylogenetic study of the bulbuls published in 2007 this genus was resurrected to contain species that were formerly assigned to the genus Andropadus.[4][5]
Species
The genus contains the following 12 species:[5]
- Cameroon greenbul (Arizelocichla montana)
- Western greenbul (Arizelocichla tephrolaema)
- Kakamega greenbul (Arizelocichla kakamegae)
- Shelley's greenbul (Arizelocichla masukuensis)
- Uluguru greenbul (Arizelocichla neumanni)
- Black-browed greenbul (Arizelocichla fusciceps)
- Yellow-throated greenbul (Arizelocichla chlorigula)
- Olive-breasted greenbul (Arizelocichla kikuyuensis)
- Mountain greenbul (Arizelocichla nigriceps)
- Olive-headed greenbul (Arizelocichla olivaceiceps)
- Stripe-faced greenbul (Arizelocichla striifacies)
- Stripe-cheeked greenbul (Arizelocichla milanjensis)
References
- ^ "Taxonomy Version 2 « IOC World Bird List". www.worldbirdnames.org. Retrieved 2017-04-02.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 55. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (January 2021). "Bulbuls". IOC World Bird List Version 11.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
- 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.
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