Pycnonotus Cinereifrons Bird
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Pycnonotus Cinereifrons Bird
English Name:
Latin Name:
Protonym: Brachypus cinereifrons Proc.Zool.Soc.London Part III, Meeting of May 21, 1878 p. 617-618
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Pycnonotidae / Pycnonotus
Taxonomy Code: asfbul1
Type Locality: Puerto Princesa, Palawan.
Author: Tweeddale
Publish Year: 1878
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
PYCNONOTUS
(Pycnonotidae; Ϯ Cape Bulbul P. capensis) Gr. πυκνος puknos thick, compact; -νωτος -nōtos -backed < νωτον nōton back; alluding to the thickly feathered back of the Cape Bulbul and many other bulbuls; "IX. Fam. Myiotheridae. ... Pycnonotus Kuhl: Turdus capensis Lin. Vaill. Afr. pl. 105 u. s. w." (Boie 1826); "Pycnonotus "Kuhl" Boie, 1826, Isis von Oken, 19, p. 973. Type, by monotypy, Turdus capensis Linnaeus." (Deignan in Peters 1960, IX, 223).
Var. Pychnonotus, Picnonotus, Picncnotus.
Synon. Alcurus, Bonapartia, Bostrycholophus, Brachypus, Centrolophus, Crocopsis, Elathea, Gymnocrotaphus, Haematornis, Hemitarsus, Ixodia, Kelaartia, Loidorusa, Malayornis, Meropixus, Mesolophus, Molpastes, Nok, Oreoctistes, Otocompsa, Pachycephalixus, Phacelias, Rubigula, Sphagias, Squamatornis, Stictognathus, Trachycomus, Xanthixus.
cinereifrons
L. cinereus ash-grey < cinis, cineris ashes; frons, frontis forehead, brow.
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
