Eastern Mountain Greenbul / Arizelocichla nigriceps
Eastern Mountain Greenbul
SCI Name:
Protonym: Xenocichla nigriceps Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt3 p.362
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Pycnonotidae / Arizelocichla
Taxonomy Code: easmog1
Type Locality: Kilimanjaro, 6,000 feet.
Author: Shelley
Publish Year: 1889
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
ARIZELOCICHLA
(Pycnonotidae; Ϯ Eastern Mountain Greenbul A. nigriceps) Gr. αριζηλος arizēlos conspicuous, distinct; κιχλη kikhlē thrush; "ARIZELOCICHLA 1 gen. nov. Chars. gen.—In some respects resembling Bleda, but nostrils linear, strongly operculate, the basal half of the operculum more or less featheredl; bill much shorter, more turdine, depressed at base, its height at this point decidedly more than one-third the length of exposed culmen; culmen curved from base; gonys almost horizontal; tarsus very much longer than exposed culmen. ... Type.—Xenocichla nigriceps SHELLEY. ... Excellent evidence of the hitherto unsatisfactory generic position of the type and several other species of this group is the manner in which various authors have treated them, placing them first in one genus, then in another, with scarcely any uniformity or agreement. Least of all the genera to which they have been at times referred do they belong in Bleda; but find apparently their nearest ally in Chlorocichla, from which, however, they may be readily distinguished. ... 1 αριζηλος, evidens; κιχλη, turdus." (Oberholser 1905); "Arizelocichla Oberholser, 1905, Smiths. Misc. Coll., Quarterly Issue, 48, no. 2, p. 163. Type, by original designation, Xenocichla nigriceps Shelley." (Rand in Peters, 1960, IX, p. 225).
nigriceps
L. niger black; -ceps -headed < caput, capitis head.
SUBSPECIES
Eastern Mountain Greenbul (Olive-breasted)
SCI Name: Arizelocichla nigriceps kikuyuensis
kikuyensis / kikuyuensis / kikuyuensisi
Kikuyuland, named after the Kikuyu or Agikuyu peoples, Kenya.
Eastern Mountain Greenbul (Mountain)
SCI Name: Arizelocichla nigriceps nigriceps/usambarae
ARIZELOCICHLA
(Pycnonotidae; Ϯ Eastern Mountain Greenbul A. nigriceps) Gr. αριζηλος arizēlos conspicuous, distinct; κιχλη kikhlē thrush; "ARIZELOCICHLA 1 gen. nov. Chars. gen.—In some respects resembling Bleda, but nostrils linear, strongly operculate, the basal half of the operculum more or less featheredl; bill much shorter, more turdine, depressed at base, its height at this point decidedly more than one-third the length of exposed culmen; culmen curved from base; gonys almost horizontal; tarsus very much longer than exposed culmen. ... Type.—Xenocichla nigriceps SHELLEY. ... Excellent evidence of the hitherto unsatisfactory generic position of the type and several other species of this group is the manner in which various authors have treated them, placing them first in one genus, then in another, with scarcely any uniformity or agreement. Least of all the genera to which they have been at times referred do they belong in Bleda; but find apparently their nearest ally in Chlorocichla, from which, however, they may be readily distinguished. ... 1 αριζηλος, evidens; κιχλη, turdus." (Oberholser 1905); "Arizelocichla Oberholser, 1905, Smiths. Misc. Coll., Quarterly Issue, 48, no. 2, p. 163. Type, by original designation, Xenocichla nigriceps Shelley." (Rand in Peters, 1960, IX, p. 225).
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)