Phaenicophaeus

Phaenicophaeus is a genus of seven species of cuckoos in the family Cuculidae that are found in South and Southeast Asia.

Phaenicophaeus
Chestnut-bellied malkoha (Phaenicophaeus sumatranus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Cuculiformes
Family:	Cuculidae
Genus:	Phaenicophaeus Stephens, 1815
Type species
Cuculus pyrrhocephalus Pennant, 1769

Taxonomy

The genus Phaenicophaeus was introduced in 1815 by the English naturalist James Francis Stephens. He included three species in the genus but in 1940 James L. Peters designated one of these, Cuculus pyrrhocephalus Pennant, 1769 (the red-faced malkoha), as the type species.^[1][2] The genus name is from Ancient Greek φοινικοφαης (phoinikophaēs) meaning "of crimson appearance" or "red-gleaming".^[3]

Species

The genus contains seven species.^[4]

Genus Phaenicophaeus – Stephens, 1815 – seven species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	IUCN status and estimated population
Chestnut-breasted malkoha	Phaenicophaeus curvirostris (Shaw, 1810) Five subspecies P. c. singularis P. c. curvirostris P. c. deningeri P. c. microrhinus P. c. harringtoni	Southeast Asia from Myanmar through to eastern Java, the Philippines and Borneo	LC
Mentawai malkoha	Phaenicophaeus oeneicaudus Verreaux, J & Verreaux, É, 1855	Mentawai Islands off the western coast of Sumatra	LC
Black-bellied malkoha	Phaenicophaeus diardi (Lesson, 1830)	Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, and Thailand.	LC
Chestnut-bellied malkoha	Phaenicophaeus sumatranus (Raffles, 1822)	Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, and Thailand.	LC
Blue-faced malkoha	Phaenicophaeus viridirostris (Jerdon, 1840)	peninsular India and Sri Lanka.	LC
Green-billed malkoha	Phaenicophaeus tristis (Lesson, 1830)	Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia	LC
Red-faced malkoha	Phaenicophaeus pyrrhocephalus (Pennant, 1769)	Sri Lanka	LC