Arizelocichla is a genus of greenbuls, songbirds in the bulbul family (Pycnonotidae). The genus was revived in 2010 when twelve species of bulbuls from the genus Andropadus were separated and re-classified in the genus Arizelocichla.
Taxonomy A molecular phylogenetic study of the bulbuls published in 2007 found that the genus Andropadus was polyphyletic. As part of a reorganization to create monophyletic genera, 12 species from Andropadus were moved to the resurrected genus Arizelocichla that had been introduced in 1905 by the American ornithologist Harry C. Oberholser with the black-headed mountain greenbul as the type species. Original published as Publication No. 1588 on 1 July 1905. The name Arizelocichla combines the Ancient Greek arizēlos meaning "conspicuous" or "admirable" with kikhlē meaning "thrush".
Species The genus contains the following ten species:
Image Common name Scientific name Distribution Cameroon mountain greenbul Arizelocichla montana Western High Plateau Western greenbul Arizelocichla tephrolaema Western High Plateau and Bioko Shelley's greenbul Arizelocichla masukuensis Albertine Rift montane forests, Eastern Arc Mountainsand western Kenya Uluguru mountain greenbul Arizelocichla neumanni Uluguru Mountains Black-browed mountain greenbul Arizelocichla fusciceps mountains of southwestern Tanzania, northern Malawiand western Mozambique Yellow-throated greenbul Arizelocichla chlorigula Eastern Arc Mountains Kikuyu mountain greenbul Arizelocichla kikuyuensis Lake Victoria region Black-headed mountain greenbul Arizelocichla nigriceps Albertine Rift montane forests, Eastern Arc Mountainsand mountains of Kenya and Tanzania Olive-headed greenbul Arizelocichla striifacies Eastern Afromontane from northern Tanzania to southern Malawi Stripe-cheeked greenbul Arizelocichla milanjensis eastern Zimbabwe and western Mozambique
References
Furhter reading
Moyle, R. G., and B. D. Marks. 2006. Phylogenetic relationships of the bulbuls (Aves: Pycnonotidae) based on mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequence data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 40: 687–695.