Sangihe Golden-Bulbul

SCI Name:  Alophoixus platenae
Protonym:  Criniger Platenae Braunschw.Anz. no.9 p.78
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pycnonotidae / Alophoixus
Taxonomy Code:  sangob1
Type Locality:  near Manganitu, Great Sangi, Sangi Islands.
Author:  Blasius, W
Publish Year:  1888
IUCN Status:  Critically Endangered

DEFINITIONS

ALOPHOIXUS
(Pycnonotidae; Ϯ Yellow-bellied Bulbul A. phaeocephalus) Gr. αλοφος alophos  without a crest  < negative prefix α- a- ; λοφος lophos  crest; genus Ixos Temminck, 1825, bulbul; "Genus ALOPHOIXUS, n. gen.  The bird for which I propose the above generic designation has hitherto been placed with Criniger.  It differs from that genus in entirely wanting a crest, a character of sufficient importance, in my estimation, to warrant its separation from Criniger, in which genus the crest is remarkably long and conspicuous.   268. Alophoixus phæocephalus.  The Crestless White-throated Bulbul." (Oates 1889); "Alophoixus Oates, 1889, Fauna Brit. India, Birds, 1, p. 259.  Type, by original designation and monotypy, Ixos phaeocephalus Hartlaub." (Deignan in Peters, 1960, IX, p. 275).
Var. Alophoiscus, Alophoiseus, Alophoixos, Alphoiscus.

platenae / plateni
● Dr Carl Constantin Platen (1843-1899) German physician based at Amoy, China, collector in the East Indies (Aramidopsis, subsp. Cinnyris jugularis, Dasycrotapha, syn. Ninox mindorensis, subsp. Pachycephala cinerea, Prionochilus).
● Dr Margarete Platen née Geisler (fl. 1894) wife of German physician Dr Carl C. Platen (syn. Ceyx melanurus mindanensis, Ficedula, Gallicolumba, Prioniturus, Thapsinillas).