Chlorophoneus
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Chlorophoneus | |
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Olive bushshrike (Chlorophoneus olivaceus) | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Malaconotidae |
Genus: | Chlorophoneus Cabanis, 1850 |
Chlorophoneus is a genus of bird in the bushshrike family, Malaconotidae.
Extant Species[]
It contains the following species:
Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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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. | |
Chlorophoneus sulfureopectus | Orange-breasted bushshrike | Sub-Saharan Africa (relatively absent from most of Central, Southern and the Horn of Africa) | |
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. | |
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 |
References[]
- Lack, Peter (2007) ABC African Checklist. Downloaded 18/09/07.
Categories:
- Chlorophoneus
- Bird genera
- Taxa named by Jean Cabanis
- Corvoidea stubs