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Chlorophoneus is a genus of bird in the bushshrike family, Malaconotidae.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassAves
  4. OrderPasseriformes
  5. FamilyMalaconotidae
Observations recorded161,517

via GBIF

Museum specimens

Specimen records
41
With media
2
Family
Malaconotidae
Collections
USNM, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE
Recorded in
Angola, Kenya, South Africa, Mozambique, Dr Congo

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  • Extant Species

Chlorophoneus is a genus of bird in the bushshrike family, Malaconotidae.

==Extant Species== It contains the following species: {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Image !! Scientific name !! Common name !! Distribution |- | 120px|| Chlorophoneus bocagei ||Bocage's bushshrike|| Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda. |- | 120px|| Chlorophoneus sulfureopectus ||Orange-breasted bushshrike|| Sub-Saharan Africa (relatively absent from most of Central, Southern and the Horn of Africa) |- | 120px|| Chlorophoneus olivaceus ||Olive bushshrike|| Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe. |- ||| Chlorophoneus multicolor ||Many-colored bushshrike|| West Africa and also in western, northern parts of Central Africa and the eastern Congo Basin. |- | 120px|| Chlorophoneus nigrifrons ||Black-fronted bushshrike|| central Kenya southwards through Tanzania to northern Malawi, southern Malawi, Mozambique, eastern Zimbabwe and north-eastern South Africa. |- | || Chlorophoneus kupeensis ||Mount Kupe bushshrike|| Cameroon |- |}

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