Joyful Greenbul

SCI Name:  Chlorocichla laetissima
Protonym:  Andropadus laetissimus Bull.Br.Orn.Club 10 p.27
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pycnonotidae / Chlorocichla
Taxonomy Code:  joygre1
Type Locality:  Nandi, Equatorial Africa [Kenya Colony].
Author:  Sharpe
Publish Year:  1899
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).

laetissima / laetissimus
L. laetissimus very bright < super. laetus glad, joyful.

SUBSPECIES

Joyful Greenbul (laetissima)
SCI Name: Chlorocichla laetissima laetissima
laetissima / laetissimus
L. laetissimus very bright < super. laetus glad, joyful.

Joyful Greenbul (schoutedeni)
SCI Name: Chlorocichla laetissima schoutedeni
schoutedeni
Dr Henri Eugène Alphonse Hubert Schouteden (1881-1972) Belgian zoologist, explorer in the Congo (subsp. Anthus nyassae, syn. Apalis goslingi, subsp. Chlorocichla laetissima, syn. Cisticola luapula, syn. Estrilda astrild cavendishi, syn. Guttera verreauxi, subsp. Mirafra rufocinnamomea, subsp. Phyllastrephus cerviniventris, subsp. Phylloscopus laetus, syn. Pyrenestes ostrinus, Schoutedenapus, subsp. Sheppardia poensis, subsp. Sylvietta ruficapilla).