Biology:Chlorophoneus

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Short description: Genus of birds

Chlorophoneus
Olive Bushshrike (Telophorus olivaceus).jpg
Olive bushshrike (Chlorophoneus olivaceus)
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Malaconotidae
Genus: Chlorophoneus
Cabanis, 1851
Type species
Lanius rubiginosus[1]
Sundevall, 1850

Chlorophoneus is a genus of bird in the bushshrike family, Malaconotidae.

Extant Species

It contains the following species:

Image Scientific name Common Name Distribution
Bocage's Bushshrike.jpg Chlorophoneus bocagei Bocage's bushshrike Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda.
Chlorophoneus sulfureopectus (6308727070).jpg Chlorophoneus sulfureopectus Orange-breasted bushshrike Sub-Saharan Africa (relatively absent from most of Central, Southern and the Horn of Africa)
Olive Bushshrike (Telophorus olivaceus).jpg Chlorophoneus olivaceus Olive bushshrike Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe.
Chlorophoneus multicolor Many-colored bushshrike West Africa and also in western, northern parts of Central Africa and the eastern Congo Basin.
Black-fronted Bushshrike (Chlorophoneus nigrifrons) (cropped).jpg Chlorophoneus nigrifrons Black-fronted bushshrike central Kenya southwards through Tanzania to northern Malawi,southern Malawi, Mozambique, eastern Zimbabwe and north-eastern South Africa. .
Chlorophoneus kupeensis Mount Kupe bushshrike Cameroon

References

Wikidata ☰ Q14437812 entry