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Cabanis's greenbul
Species of songbird From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Cabanis's greenbul (Phyllastrephus cabanisi), also known as Cabanis's bulbul, is a species of songbird in the bulbul family, Pycnonotidae. It is found in east-central and south-central Africa. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland.
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Cabanis's greenbul was formally described in 1880 by the German ornithologist Jean Cabanis under the binomial name Trichophorus flaveolus based on a specimen that had been collected in Angola.[2] Unfortunately, the scientific name was pre-occupied by Trichophorus flaveolus that had been introduced by John Gould in 1836 for the white-throated bulbul, now Alophoixus flaveolus.[3] In 1882 the English ornithologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe proposed the replacement name, Criniger cabanisi, with the specific epithet chosen to honour Cabanis who had first described the species.[4][5] Cabanis's greenbul is now one of 20 greenbuls placed in the genus Phyllastrephus that was introduced in 1832 by William Swainson.[6] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek φυλλον/phullon meaning "leaf" with στρεφω/strephō meaning "to toss" or "to turn".[7]
Three subspecies are recognised:[6]
- P. c. cabanisi (Sharpe, 1882) – central Angola to southeast DR Congo, west Tanzania and north Zambia
- P. c. sucosus Reichenow, 1904 – south Sudan and west Kenya to east DR Congo and northwest Tanzania
- P. c. placidus (Shelley, 1899) – east Kenya through Tanzania to northeast Zambia, Malawi and northwest Mozambique
The subspecies P. c. placidus has sometimes been considered as a separate species, the placid greenbul.[6]
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