Cabanis's greenbul | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Pycnonotidae |
Genus: | Phyllastrephus |
Species: | P. cabanisi |
Binomial name | |
Phyllastrephus cabanisi (Sharpe, 1881) |
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The Cabanis's greenbul (Phyllastrephus cabanisi) is a species of songbird in the family Pycnonotidae. It is found in Angola, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland.
The subspecies P. c. placidus is sometimes regarded as a separate species, the placid greenbul.
The common name and Latin binomial commemorates the German ornithologist Jean Louis Cabanis.