''Baeopogon'' is a genus of
passerine
A passerine () is any bird of the order Passeriformes (; from Latin 'sparrow' and '-shaped'), which includes more than half of all bird species. Sometimes known as perching birds, passerines are distinguished from other orders of birds by t ...
birds in the
bulbul
The bulbuls are members of a family, Pycnonotidae, of medium-sized passerine songbirds, which also includes greenbuls, brownbuls, leafloves, and bristlebills. The family is distributed across most of Africa and into the Middle East, tropical As ...
family,
Pycnonotidae
The bulbuls are members of a family, Pycnonotidae, of medium-sized passerine songbirds, which also includes greenbuls, brownbuls, leafloves, and bristlebills. The family is distributed across most of Africa and into the Middle East, tropical Asi ...
.
Taxonomy
The genus ''Baeopogon'' was introduced in 1860 by the German ornithologist
Ferdinand Heine
Jakob Gottlieb Ferdinand Heine (9 March 1809, in Halberstadt – 28 March 1894) was a German ornithologist and collector.
Heine had one of the largest private collection of birds in the mid-19th century. The collection now housed at the Heineanum ...
with the
honeyguide greenbul
The honeyguide greenbul (''Baeopogon indicator'') is a species of songbird in the bulbul family, Pycnonotidae.
It is widespread throughout the African tropical rainforest.
Taxonomy and systematics
The honeyguide greenbul was originally describ ...
as the
type species
In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen ...
. The name combines the
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Dark Ages (), the Archaic peri ...
''baios'' (
βαιός) meaning "small" or "little" with ''pōgōn'' meaning "beard".
The genus contains two species:
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Honeyguide greenbul
The honeyguide greenbul (''Baeopogon indicator'') is a species of songbird in the bulbul family, Pycnonotidae.
It is widespread throughout the African tropical rainforest.
Taxonomy and systematics
The honeyguide greenbul was originally describ ...
(''Baeopogon indicator'')
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Sjöstedt's greenbul
Sjöstedt's greenbul (''Baeopogon clamans'') is a species of songbird in the bulbul family, Pycnonotidae. It is found in western and central Africa.
Taxonomy and systematics
Sjöstedt's greenbul was originally described in the genus ''Xenocichl ...
(''Baeopogon clamans'')
References
Greenbuls
Bird genera
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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