Chlorophoneus

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Chlorophoneus
File:Olive Bushshrike (Telophorus olivaceus).jpg
Olive bushshrike (Chlorophoneus olivaceus)
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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

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It contains the following species:

Image Scientific name Common name Distribution
File: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.
File:Chlorophoneus sulfureopectus (6308727070).jpg Chlorophoneus sulfureopectus Orange-breasted bushshrike Sub-Saharan Africa (relatively absent from most of Central, Southern and the Horn of Africa)
File: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.
File: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

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