Aceh Bulbul

Aceh Bulbul / Pycnonotus snouckaerti

Aceh Bulbul

Here the details of the Aceh Bulbul named bird below:

SCI Name:  Pycnonotus snouckaerti
Protonym:  Pycnonotus snouckaerti Treubia 10 p. 396-397
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pycnonotidae /
Taxonomy Code:  orsbul2
Type Locality:  Takengon Lake, Acheh district, Sumatra.
Author:  
Publish Year:  1928
IUCN Status:  

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. PychnonotusPicnonotus, 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.

snouckaerti
Dr René Charles Edouard George Jean Baron Snouckaert van Schauburg (1857-1936) Dutch ornithologist (Pycnonotus).