Pycnonotus Leucogenys Bird
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Pycnonotus Leucogenys Bird
English Name:
Latin Name:
Protonym: Brachypus leucogenys Ill.Ind.Zool.[Hardwicke] 2 pt19-20 pl.35 fig.3
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Pycnonotidae / Pycnonotus
Taxonomy Code: whcbul2
Type Locality: India ; type locality inferentially restricted to Kashmir, by Blyth, 1845, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 14, p. 567.
Author: Gray, JE
Publish Year: 1835
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.
leucogenis / leucogenus / leucogenys
Gr. λευκος leukos white; γενυς genus, γενυος genuos jaw, chin, cheek.
● ex “Turdus leucogenys” of Lichtenstein MS (Cichlopsis).
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)
