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Hypsipetes

Poole, Karen E.

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Hypsipetes

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Species

KINGDOM

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassAves
  4. OrderPasseriformes
  5. FamilyPycnonotidae
Observations recorded3,012,139,120

via GBIF

Museum specimens

Specimen records
619
With media
305
Family
Pycnonotidae
Collections
ROM, WFVZ, FMNH, CUMV
Recorded in
India, Myanmar, Malaysia, Sri Lanka

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Encyclopedic overview

7 sections
Contents
  • Taxonomy and systematics
  • Species
  • Extinct species
  • Former species
  • Notes
  • References
  • Sources

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Hypsipetes is a genus of bulbuls, songbirds in the family Pycnonotidae. Most of its species occur in tropical forests around the Indian Ocean. But while the genus is quite diverse in the Madagascar region at the western end of its range it does not reach the African mainland.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hypsipetes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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