Hypsipetes

Hypsipetes
Black bulbul
(Hypsipetes leucocephalus psaroides)
Kullu district, Himachal Pradesh (India)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Pycnonotidae
Genus: Hypsipetes
Vigors, 1831
Type species
Hypsipetes psaroides
(black bulbul)
Vigors, 1831
Species

see text

Synonyms
  • Ixocincla Blyth, 1845
  • Anepsia Reichenbach, 1850 (non Gistel, 1848: preoccupied)
  • Haringtonia Mathews & Iredale, 1917

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.

Most Hypsipetes bulbuls are dark greyish birds with orange or red bills and feet. The feathers on top of the head are slightly elongated and usually black, and can be erected to form a short and wispy crest.

Taxonomy and systematics

The genus Hypsipetes was introduced in 1831 by the Irish zoologist Nicholas Aylward Vigors with Hypsipetes psaroides as the type species. This taxon is now a subspecies of the black bulbul Hypsipetes leucocephalus psaroides. The genus name combines the Ancient Greek hupsi meaning "high" with petēs meaning "-flyer".

Species

The genus contains the following 26 extant species, as well as 1 extinct species:

ImageCommon nameScientific name
Nicobar bulbulHypsipetes nicobariensis (formerly placed in Ixos)
Philippine bulbulHypsipetes philippinus
Mindoro bulbulHypsipetes mindorensis
Streak-breasted bulbulHypsipetes siquijorensis
Seram golden bulbulHypsipetes affinis
Sangihe golden bulbulHypsipetes platenae (split from H. longirostris)
Togian golden bulbulHypsipetes aureus (split from H. longirostris)
Banggai golden bulbulHypsipetes harterti (split from H. longirostris)
Sula golden bulbulHypsipetes longirostris (formerly northern golden bulbul before splits)
Halmahera golden bulbulHypsipetes chloris (split from H. longirostris)
Obi golden bulbulHypsipetes lucasi (split from H. longirostris)
Buru golden bulbulHypsipetes mysticalis
Visayan bulbulHypsipetes guimarasensis
Yellowish bulbulHypsipetes everetti
Camiguin bulbulHypsipetes catarmanensis
Zamboanga bulbulHypsipetes rufigularis
Brown-eared bulbulHypsipetes amaurotis
Reunion bulbulHypsipetes borbonicus
Malagasy bulbulHypsipetes madagascariensis
Mauritius bulbulHypsipetes olivaceus
White-headed bulbulHypsipetes thompsoni
Black bulbulHypsipetes leucocephalus
Square-tailed bulbulHypsipetes ganeesa
Grande Comore bulbulHypsipetes parvirostris
Moheli bulbulHypsipetes moheliensis
Seychelles bulbulHypsipetes crassirostris
†Rodrigues bulbulHypsipetes cowlesi (extinct, known only from subfossil remains collected in 1974)

Former species

Some authorities, either presently or formerly, recognize several additional species as belonging to the genus Hypsipetes including:

Notes

  1. 1 2 Three species formerly assigned to Thapsinillas were moved to Hypsipetes after molecular phylogenetic analysis found Hypsipetes affinis embedded in the Hypsipetes clade.
  2. ↑ A species formerly placed in the monotypoc genus Cerasophila was moved to Hypsipetes after molecular phylogenetic analysis found embedded in the Hypsipetes clade.

References

  1. ↑ Vigors, Nicholas Aylward (1831). "Hypsipetes". Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological Society of London. 1 (4): 43.
  2. ↑ Dickinson, E.C.; Christidis, L., eds. (2014). The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. Vol. 2: Passerines (4th ed.). Eastbourne, UK: Aves Press. pp. 491–492. ISBN 978-0-9568611-2-2.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2024). "Bulbuls". IOC World Bird List Version 14.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 5 September 2024.
  4. ↑ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 200. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  5. 1 2 Shakya, Subir B.; Sheldon, Frederick H. (2017). "The phylogeny of the world's bulbuls (Pycnonotidae) inferred using a supermatrix approach". Ibis. 159 (3): 498–509. doi:10.1111/ibi.12464. ISSN 0019-1019.
  6. ↑ "Criniger chloronotus - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2017-05-09.
  7. ↑ "Acritillas indica - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2017-06-02.
  8. ↑ "Tricholestes criniger - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2017-06-02.
  9. ↑ "Iole viridescens - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2017-06-04.
  10. ↑ "Iole propinqua - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2017-06-05.
  11. ↑ "Iole charlottae - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2017-06-05.
  12. ↑ "Iole palawanensis - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2017-06-05.
  13. ↑ "Ixos nicobariensis - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2017-06-06.
  14. ↑ Balfour, Edward (1871). Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial and Scientific: Products of the Mineral, Vegetable and Animal Kingdoms, Useful Arts and Manufactures. Printed at the Scottish & Adelphi presses.
  15. ↑ "Ixos mcclellandii - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2017-06-14.
  16. 1 2 3 4 Gregory (2000)
  17. ↑ "Ixos mcclellandii tickelli - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2017-06-14.
  18. ↑ "Ixos mcclellandii holtii - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2017-06-14.
  19. ↑ "Ixos malaccensis (Streaked Bulbul) - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2017-08-25.
  20. ↑ "Ixos virescens (Sunda Bulbul) - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2017-10-24.
  21. ↑ "Thapsinillas [affinis, mystacalis or longirostris] (Golden Bulbul) - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2017-10-18.
  22. ↑ "Hemixos flavala (Ashy Bulbul) - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2017-10-23.
  23. ↑ "Hemixos casteonotus (Chestnut Bulbul) - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2017-10-23.
  24. ↑ "Cerasophila thompsoni (White-headed Bulbul) - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2017-11-08.

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