Greenbul

Greenbuls
Sombre greenbul Andropadus importunus
Sombre greenbul Andropadus importunus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Pycnonotidae
Genera

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The greenbuls are a group of birds within the bulbul family Pycnonotidae, found only within Africa. They are all largely drab olive-green above, and paler below, with few distinguishing features.

The "aberrant greenbuls" of the genera Bernieria and Xanthomixis are actually Malagasy warblers.[1] To recognize this, they are also called bernieria and tetrakas rather than greenbuls. Likewise, the golden greenbul is not a typical greenbul, but apparently the representative of a distinct and ancient lineage of bulbuls, which might include the black-collared bulbul.[2] A few species within some of the genera in this group are called brownbuls or leafloves.

References

  1. ^ Cibois, Alice; Slikas, Beth; Schulenberg, Thomas S.; Pasquet, Eric (2001). "An endemic radiation of Malagasy songbirds is revealed by mitochondrial DNA sequence data" (PDF). Evolution. 55 (6): 1198–1206. doi:10.1554/0014-3820(2001)055[1198:AEROMS]2.0.CO;2. PMID 11475055. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-05-21 – via Internet Archive Wayback Machine.
  2. ^ Moyle, Robert G.; Marks, Ben D. (2006-09-01). "Phylogenetic relationships of the bulbuls (Aves: Pycnonotidae) based on mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequence data". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 40 (3): 687–695. Bibcode:2006MolPE..40..687M. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2006.04.015. ISSN 1055-7903. PMID 16750401.


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