White-spectacled Bulbul / Pycnonotus xanthopygos
WBN 
White-spectacled Bulbul
SCI Name:
Protonym: Ixus xanthopygos Symb.Phys.Aves(1828) (1828), sig.bb
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Pycnonotidae / Pycnonotus
Taxonomy Code: whsbul1
Type Locality: Arabia = Muwailah on coast near north end of Red Sea, Bates, 1935, Bull. Brit. Orn. CI., 55, p. 119.
Author: Hemprich & Ehrenberg
Publish Year: 1833
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.
xanthopygos / xanthopygus
Gr. ξανθος xanthos yellow; -πυγος -pugos -rumped < πυγη pugē rump.
● ex “Merle à cul jaune du Sénégal” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 317 (Pycnonotus).
● ex “Brunoir” of Levaillant 1802, pl. 106, fig. 1 (syn. Pycnonotus nigricans).
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)
