Yellow-necked Greenbul
Yellow-necked Greenbul
Here the details of the Yellow-necked Greenbul named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Criniger Falkensteini J.Orn. 22 p.458
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Pycnonotidae / Chlorocichla
Taxonomy Code: yengre1
Type Locality: Chinchoxo, Loango Coast.
Author: Reichenow
Publish Year: 1874
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
CHLOROCICHLA
(Pycnonotidae; Ϯ Yellow-bellied Greenbul C. flaviventris) Gr. χλωρος khlōros yellow; κιχλη kikhlē thrush; "a9. Bill rather stout and conical, measuring at gape more than the hind toe itself without claw; bill shorter than head. . . . .18. CHLOROCICHLA ... 18. CHLOROCICHLA. ... 1. Chlorocichla flaviventris. ... General colour above olive-brown ... cheeks and under surface of body sulphur-yellow ... under tail-coverts yellow like the abdomen ... 2. Chlorocichla occidentalis. ... 3. Chlorocichla gracilirostris. ... 4. Chlorocichla gracilis." (Sharpe 1882); "Chlorocichla Sharpe, 1881, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 6, p. 3, 112. Type, by subsequent designation, Reichenow, Vög. Afr., 3, p. 388, Trichophorus flaviventris Smith." (Rand in Peters, 1960, IX, p. 260).
falkensteini
Dr Julius August Ferdinand Falkenstein (1842-1917) German surgeon, collector in tropical Africa 1873-1876 (Chlorocichla, subsp.Cinnyris venustus, subsp. Oenanthe familiaris).
SUBSPECIES
Yellow-necked Greenbul (viridescentior)
SCI Name: Chlorocichla falkensteini viridescentior
viridescentior
Mod. L. viridescentior, viridescentioris more greenish < comp. L. viridescens, viridescentis greenish < viridescere to become green < viridis green < virere to be green.
Yellow-necked Greenbul (falkensteini)
SCI Name: Chlorocichla falkensteini falkensteini
falkensteini
Dr Julius August Ferdinand Falkenstein (1842-1917) German surgeon, collector in tropical Africa 1873-1876 (Chlorocichla, subsp.Cinnyris venustus, subsp. Oenanthe familiaris).
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)