Cream-eyed Bulbul

SCI Name:  Pycnonotus pseudosimplex
Protonym:  Pycnonotus pseudosimplex Bull.Br.Orn.Club 139(1) 46-55
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pycnonotidae / Pycnonotus
Taxonomy Code:  crebul1
Type Locality:  
Author:  Shakya et al.
Publish Year:  2019
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

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. Pychnonotus, Picnonotus, 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.

pseudosimplex
Gr. ψευδος pseudos  false; specific name Pycnonotus simplex Lesson, 1839; "For more than 100 years this species has been confused with P. simplex  ...  Apart from eye colour, the two species are almost indistinguishable; hence, we refer to the new species as 'false' or 'pseudo' simplex.  The common name, Cream-eyed Bulbul, describes the main identifying character of the new species.  It also evokes a time when P. simplex was known as the White-eyed Brown Bulbul, as opposed to the Red-eyed Brown Bulbul P. brunneus of Borneo" (Shakya et al. 2019) (Pycnonotus).