Chlorocichla

Chlorocichla is a genus of songbird in the bulbul family, Pycnonotidae. They are mainly present throughout the African tropical rainforest, excepted the yellow-bellied greenbul, native to the miombo woodlands.

Chlorocichla
Yellow-bellied greenbul (Chlorocichla flaviventris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Pycnonotidae
Genus:	Chlorocichla Sharpe, 1882
Type species
Trichophorus flaviventris (Yellow-bellied greenbul) Smith, A, 1834

Taxonomy

The genus Chlorocichla was introduced in 1882 by the English ornithologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe.^[1] Sharpe did not specify a type species but this was designated as the yellow-bellied greenbul by Anton Reichenow in 1904–1905.^[2][3] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek khlōros meaning "pale green" or "yellow" with kikhlē meaning "thrush".^[4]

Species

The genus contains five species:^[5]

• Joyful greenbul (Chlorocichla laetissima)
• Prigogine's greenbul (Chlorocichla prigoginei)
• Falkenstein's greenbul (Chlorocichla falkensteini)
• Yellow-bellied greenbul (Chlorocichla flaviventris)
• Simple greenbul (Chlorocichla simplex)

Former species

Formerly, some authorities also considered the following species (or subspecies) as species within the genus Chlorocichla:

• Honeyguide greenbul (as Chlorocichla indicator, now Baeopogon indicator)^[6]
• Yellow-throated leaflove (as Chlorocichla flavicollis, now Atimastillas flavicollis)^[7]

References

1. Sharpe, R. Bowdler (1881). Catalogue of the Passeriformes or Perching Birds in the Collection of the British Museum. Cichlomorphae Part 3. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Vol. 6. London: Trustees of the British Museum. pp. 3, 112. Although the title page bears the date of 1881 this volume was not published until 1882.
2. Reichenow, Anton (1904–1905). Die Vögel Afrikas (in German). Vol. 3. Neudamm [Dębno]: J. Neumann. p. 388.
3. Mayr, Ernst; Greenway, James C. Jr, eds. (1960). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 9. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 260.
4. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 102. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
5. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (January 2021). "Bulbuls". IOC World Bird List Version 11.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
6. "Baeopogon indicator indicator (chlorosaturatus) - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2017-04-11.
7. "Atimastillas flavicollis - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2017-04-16.