Poliocephalus

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Poliocephalus and its counterparts poliocephala and poliocephalum are Greek words meaning 'grey-headed'. Poliocephalus is the name for a genus of grebes, while Poliocephala is the name for a genus of flies. The two words are often used as the second word of a binomial name.

Species names poliocephalus or poliocephala could refer to any of the following:

Mammals

• the Grey-headed Flying-fox, Pteropus poliocephalus
• a Tayra subspecies, Eira barbara poliocephala
• the White-headed Langur, Trachypithecus poliocephalus

Birds

• the Ashy-headed Goose Chloephaga poliocephala
• the Brown-chested Alethe Pseudalethe poliocephala
• the Gray-crowned Palm-Tanager Phaenicophilus poliocephalus
• the Gray-crowned Yellowthroat Geothlypis poliocephala
• the Grey-crowned Flatbill Tolmomyias poliocephalus
• the Grey-headed Babbler Stachyris poliocephala
• the Grey-headed Greenbul Phyllastrephus poliocephalus
• the Grey-headed Swamphen Porphyrio (porphyrio) poliocephalus
• the Hoary-headed Grebe Poliocephalus poliocephalus
• the Island Leaf-Warbler Phylloscopus poliocephalus
• the Island Thrush Turdus poliocephalus
• the Lesser Cuckoo Cuculus poliocephalus
• a Little Tinamou subspecies Crypturellus soui poliocephalus
• the Mountain Nightjar, Caprimulgus poliocephalus
• the New Guinea Goshawk Accipiter poliocephalus
• the Pink-bellied Imperial Pigeon Ducula poliocephala
• the West Mexican Chachalaca Ortalis poliocephala
• the Yellow-lored Tody-Flycatcher Todirostrum poliocephalum

Insects

• the moth Acrocercops poliocephala
• the fly Trentepohlia poliocephala

See also

• amaurocephalus
• brunnicephalus
• bucephalus
• caeruleocephalus
• cirrocephalus
• chlorocephalus
• chrysocephalus
• cyanocephalus
• dichrocephalus
• erythrocephalus
• griseocephalus
• gymnocephalus
• haemacephalus
• icterocephalus
• kirhocephalus
• leucocephalus
• luteocephalus
• macrocephalus
• megacephalus
• melanocephalus
• nigricephalus
• ochrocephalus
• phaeocephalus
• porphyrocephalus
• pyrrhocephalus
• pyrocephalus
• rhodocephalus
• spodocephalus
• stictocephalus
• xanthocephalus

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