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Genus of birds From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eurillas is a genus of greenbuls, passerine birds in the bulbul family Pycnonotidae.
| Eurillas | |
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| Little greenbul, Eurillas virens | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Infraorder: | Passerides |
| Family: | Pycnonotidae |
| Genus: | Eurillas Oberholser, 1899 |
| Type species | |
| Andropadas virens (Little greenbul) Cassin, 1857 | |
| Species | |
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The genus Eurillas was introduced in 1899 by the American ornithologist Harry C. Oberholser with the little greenbul as the type species.[1] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek eurus meaning "broad" or "wide" and illas meaning "thrush".[2]
This genus was formerly synonymized with the genus Andropadus. A molecular phylogenetic study of the bulbul family published in 2007 found that Andropadus was polyphyletic.[3] In the revision to the generic classification five species were moved from Andropadus to the resurrected genus Eurillas.[4]
The genus contains five species:[4]
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