Genus of birds
Rubigula is a genus of Asian passerine birds in the bulbul family, Pycnonotidae .
Taxonomy
The genus Rubigula was introduced in 1845 by the English zoologist Edward Blyth .[ 1] The type species was designated as the ruby-throated bulbul by George Robert Gray in 1855.[ 2] [ 3] The name combines the Medieval Latin rubinus meaning "ruby" with Latin gula meaning "throat".[ 4]
This genus was formerly synonymized with the genus Pycnonotus . A molecular phylogenetic study of the bulbul family published in 2017 found that Pycnonotus was polyphyletic .[ 5] In the revision to the generic classification five species were moved from Pycnonotus to Rubigula .[ 6]
Species
It has five species:[ 6]
References
^ Blyth, Edward (1845). "Notices and descriptions of various new or little known species of birds (continued)" . Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal . 14, Part 2 (164): 546–602 [576].
^ Gray, George Robert (1855). Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum . London: British Museum. p. 47.
^ Mayr, Ernst ; Greenway, James C. Jr, eds. (1960). Check-List of Birds of the World . Vol. 9. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 223.
^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . London: Christopher Helm. p. 339. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4 .
^ Shakya, Subir B.; Sheldon, Frederick H. (2017). "The phylogeny of the world's bulbuls (Pycnonotidae) inferred using a supermatrix approach" . Ibis . 159 (3): 498–509. doi :10.1111/ibi.12464 .
^ a b Gill, Frank ; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela , eds. (January 2021). "Bulbuls" . IOC World Bird List Version 11.1 . International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 26 June 2021 .