Zamboanga bulbul

Zamboanga bulbul
Illustration by Keulemans, 1881
Conservation status
Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Pycnonotidae
Genus:	Hypsipetes (but see text)
Species:	H. rufigularis
Binomial name
Hypsipetes rufigularis (Sharpe, 1877)
Synonyms
Iole rufigularis Ixos rufigularis

The Zamboanga bulbul (Hypsipetes rufigularis) is a songbird species in the bulbul family (Pycnonotidae).

It was one of the species of Ixos that now usually warrants inclusion in the genus Hypsipetes – as long as this is kept separate from Ixos – as it may be a close relative of the Philippine bulbul (H. philippinensis), which in turn is closely related to the type species of Hypsipetes, the black bulbul (H. leucocephalus).^[2]

It is endemic to the Philippines, where its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is becoming rare due to habitat loss.^[3]

Footnotes

1. BirdLife International (2012). "Ixos rufigularis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
2. Gregory (2000), Pasquet et al. (2001), Moyle & Marks (2006)
3. BLI (2008)

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)
• Pasquet, Éric; Han, Lian-Xian; Khobkhet, Obhas & Cibois, Alice (2001): Towards a molecular systematics of the genus Criniger, and a preliminary phylogeny of the bulbuls (Aves, Passeriformes, Pycnonotidae). Zoosystema 23(4): 857-863. PDF fulltext