Rubigula

Rubigula is a genus of Asian passerine birds in the bulbul family, Pycnonotidae.

Rubigula
Black-crested bulbul (Rubigula flaviventris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Pycnonotidae
Genus:	Rubigula Blyth, 1845
Type species
Turdus dispar (ruby-throated bulbul) Horsfield, 1821

Taxonomy

The genus Rubigula was introduced in 1845 by the English zoologist Edward Blyth.^[1] The type species was designated as the ruby-throated bulbul by George Robert Gray in 1855.^[2][3] The name combines the Medieval Latin rubinus meaning "ruby" with Latin gula meaning "throat".^[4]

This genus was formerly synonymized with the genus Pycnonotus. A molecular phylogenetic study of the bulbul family published in 2017 found that Pycnonotus was polyphyletic.^[5] In the revision to the generic classification five species were moved from Pycnonotus to Rubigula.^[6]

Species

It has five species:^[6]

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
	Rubigula flaviventris	Black-crested bulbul	India, Nepal, Southeast Asia
	Rubigula gularis	Flame-throated bulbul	Western Ghats from southern Maharashtra and Goa southwards
	Rubigula melanictera	Black-capped bulbul	Sri Lanka
	Rubigula dispar	Ruby-throated bulbul	Sumatra, Java, and Bali
	Rubigula montis	Bornean bulbul	Borneo