Streaked bulbul
| Streaked bulbul | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Pycnonotidae |
| Genus: | Ixos (but see text) |
| Species: | I. malaccensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Ixos malaccensis (Blyth, 1845) | |
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The streaked bulbul (Ixos malaccensis), or green-backed bulbul, is a songbird species in the bulbul family (Pycnonotidae). It is found on the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is becoming rare due to habitat loss.[2]
Taxonomy and systematics
Depending on whether it is or isn't a particularly close relative of the type species of the genus Ixos, the Sunda bulbul, it might belong in a new genus.[3] What is known is that some Ixos species are close to Hypsipetes (which might warrant merging into Ixos), while others – including the streaked bulbul – are closer to the genus Hemixos. But the affiliations of I. virescens remain to be re-studied, and it is not clear to which group it belongs.[3]
Both the alternate name 'green-backed bulbul' and the synonym Hypsipetes malaccensis are also shared with the eastern bearded greenbul.
Footnotes
- ↑ BirdLife International (2016). "Ixos malaccensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2017.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
- ↑ BLI (2008)
- 1 2 Gregory (2000), Moyle & Marks (2006)
References
- Gregory, Steven M. (2000): Nomenclature of the Hypsipetes Bulbuls (Pycnonotidae). Forktail 16: 164-166. PDF fulltext
- Moyle, Robert G. & Marks, Ben D. (2006): Phylogenetic relationships of the bulbuls (Aves: Pycnonotidae) based on mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequence data. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 40(3): 687-695. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2006.04.015 (HTML abstract)