Phyllastrephus

Phyllastrephus
Terrestrial brownbul
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Passeriformes
Family:Pycnonotidae
Genus:Phyllastrephus
Swainson, 1832
Species

see text

Synonyms
  • Pyrrhurus

Phyllastrephus is a songbird genus in the family Pycnonotidae. Most of the species in the genus are typical greenbuls, though two are brownbuls, and one is a leaflove.

Taxonomy and systematics

Extant species

The genus Phyllastrephus contains the following species:[1]

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. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Bulbuls". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  2. The Ibis. British Ornithologists' Union. 1906-01-01.
  3. "Chlorocichla simplex - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2017-04-16.
  4. "Thescelocichla leucopleura - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2017-04-18.


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