Black-headed Bulbul
Black-headed Bulbul
Here the details of the Black-headed Bulbul named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Turdus atriceps Pl.Col. livr.25 pl.147
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Pycnonotidae / Brachypodius
Taxonomy Code: blhbul1
Type Locality: Java and Sumatra; type locality restricted to Java, by Robinson and Kloss, 1923, Journ. Fed. Malay States Mus., 11, p. 55.
Author: Temminck
Publish Year: 1822
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
BRACHYPODIUS
(Pycnonotidae; Ϯ Black-headed Bulbul B. atriceps) Gr. βραχυς brakhus short; ποδιον podion little foot < dim. πους pous, ποδος podos foot; "the species has a good deal the character of an Alcippe ... excepting in its very small tarsi and toes" (Blyth 1845); "there remains that of Lanius melanocephalus, Gm., and its congeners, for which I can find no appellation, and shall therefore designate Brachypodius. ... Brachypodius, nobis. 1. Br. entilotus [sic], (Jardine and Selby), Ill. Orn., 2nd series. (Non vidi.) Hab. Malacca. 2. Br. poiocephalus, (Jerdon). Southern India. 3. Br. melanocephalus, (Gmelin): Turdoides atriceps, Temminck. Malay countries, extending northwards to Arracan and Tipperah. 4. Br. cinereoventris, Nobis. ... Inhabits Tipperah. 5. Br. tristis, nobis. ... inhabits Penang. ... 6? Br.? criniger, A. Hay. ... Inhabits Malacca." (Blyth 1845); "Brachypodius Blyth, 1845, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 14, p. 576. Type, by original designation, Lanius melanocephalos Gmelin [1788, Syst. Nat., 1, pt. 1, p. 309 ( not Lanius melanocephalos Gmelin 1788, Syst. Nat., 1, pt. 1, p. 301) = Turdus atriceps Temminck 1822]." (Deignan in Peters, 1960, IX, p. 227).
Synon. Brachypus, Micropus, Prosecusa.
atriceps
L. ater black; -ceps -capped, -headed < caput, capitis head.
SUBSPECIES
Black-headed Bulbul (atriceps)
SCI Name: Brachypodius atriceps atriceps
atriceps
L. ater black; -ceps -capped, -headed < caput, capitis head.
Black-headed Bulbul (hyperemnus)
SCI Name: Brachypodius atriceps hyperemnus
hyperemnus
Gr. ὑπο hupo beneath; ερεμνος eremnos murky, dark.
Black-headed Bulbul (baweanus)
SCI Name: Brachypodius atriceps baweanus
baweana / baweanum / baweanus
Bawean I., Java Sea, Indonesia.
Black-headed Bulbul (hodiernus)
SCI Name: Brachypodius atriceps hodiernus
hodiernus
L. hodiernus of today, of the present time, actual < hodie today < hoc die on this day.
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)