Prigogine’s Greenbul / Chlorocichla prigoginei
Prigogine's Greenbul
SCI Name:
Protonym: Chlorocichla prigoginei Rev.Zool.Bot.Afr. 75 p.392
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Pycnonotidae / Chlorocichla
Taxonomy Code: prigre1
Type Locality:
Author: DeRoo
Publish Year: 1967
IUCN Status: Endangered
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).
prigoginei
Dr Alexandre Prigogine (born Aleksandr Romanovich Prigozhin) (1913-1991) Russian/Belgian ornithologist, geologist, chemist, sponsor of expeditions to tropical Africa (‡Caprimulgus, Chlorocichla, Cinnyris, syn. Geokichla cameronensis graueri, subsp. Linurgus olivaceus, Phodilus, subsp. Sylvia lugens).
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)