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Chlorocichla
Sign in to saveChlorocichla is a genus of songbird in the bulbul family, Pycnonotidae. They are mainly present throughout the African tropical rainforest, excepted the yellow-bellied greenbul, native to the miombo woodlands.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderPasseriformes
- FamilyPycnonotidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 6
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Pycnonotidae
- Collections
- NHMUK
- Recorded in
- Namibia, Kenya, Angola, Liberia
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Chlorocichla is a genus of songbird in the bulbul family, Pycnonotidae. They are mainly present throughout the African tropical rainforest, excepted the yellow-bellied greenbul, native to the miombo woodlands.
== Taxonomy == The genus Chlorocichla was introduced in 1882 by the English ornithologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe. Sharpe did not specify a type species but this was designated as the yellow-bellied greenbul by Anton Reichenow in 1904–1905. The genus name combines the Ancient Greek khlōros meaning "pale green" or "yellow" with kikhlē meaning "thrush".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chlorocichla” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.