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

Taxonomy and systematics

The genus Phyllastrephus was introduced by the English naturalist William Swainson in 1832 with Le Jaboteur (Levaillant), now the terrestrial brownbul, as the type species.[1][2] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek phullon meaning "leaf" with strephō meaning "to toss" or "to turn".[3]

Species

The genus contains the following 21 species:[4]

Image Scientific name Common Name Distribution
Lowland tiny greenbul Phyllastrephus debilis East Africa
- Montane tiny greenbul Phyllastrephus albigula Usambara and Nguru Mountains
White-throated greenbul Phyllastrephus albigularis African tropical rainforest
- Angola greenbul Phyllastrephus viridiceps northwestern Angola
- Xavier's greenbul Phyllastrephus xavieri Congolian rainforests
Icterine greenbul Phyllastrephus icterinus African tropical rainforest
Terrestrial brownbul Phyllastrephus terrestris miombo, fynbos and east Africa
- Cameroon olive greenbul Phyllastrephus poensis Western High Plateau
Northern brownbul Phyllastrephus strepitans northern East Africa
- Grey-olive greenbul Phyllastrephus cerviniventris miombo and East Africa
- Fischer's greenbul Phyllastrephus fischeri southern Somalia to northern Mozambique
Cabanis's greenbul Phyllastrephus cabanisi miombo and East Africa
- Placid greenbul Phyllastrephus placidus East Africa
- Red-tailed leaflove Phyllastrephus scandens African tropical rainforest
- Sassi's olive greenbul Phyllastrephus lorenzi Congo Basin (north-east)
Yellow-streaked greenbul Phyllastrephus flavostriatus Afromontane
- Sharpe's greenbul Phyllastrephus alfredi south-western Tanzania, north-eastern Zambia and northern Malawi
- Grey-headed greenbul Phyllastrephus poliocephalus Western High Plateau
- Toro olive greenbul Phyllastrephus hypochloris East African montane forests
and northern Victoria Basin
- Baumann's greenbul Phyllastrephus baumanni sparsely present across southern West Africa
Pale-olive greenbul Phyllastrephus fulviventris gallery forests of southwestern Central Africa

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. ^ Swainson, William; Richardson, J. (1831). Fauna Boreali-Americana, or, The Zoology of the Northern Parts of British America. Vol. Part 2. The Birds. London: J. Murray. p. 486. The title page bears the year 1831 but the volume did not appear until 1832.
  2. ^ Mayr, Ernst; Greenway, James C. Jr, eds. (1960). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 9. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 263.
  3. ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 305. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  4. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2024). "Bulbuls". IOC World Bird List Version 14.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
  5. ^ The Ibis. British Ornithologists' Union. 1906-01-01.
  6. ^ "Chlorocichla simplex - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2017-04-16.
  7. ^ "Thescelocichla leucopleura - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2017-04-18.
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