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Rubigula

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Rubigula is a genus of Asian passerine birds in the bulbul family, Pycnonotidae.

The genus Rubigula was introduced in 1845 by the English zoologist Edward Blyth.^[1] The type species was designated as the ruby-throated bulbul by George Robert Gray in 1855.^[2]^[3] The name combines the Medieval Latin rubinus meaning "ruby" with Latin gula meaning "throat".^[4]

This genus was formerly synonymized with the genus Pycnonotus. A molecular phylogenetic study of the bulbul family published in 2017 found that Pycnonotus was polyphyletic.^[5] In the revision to the generic classification five species were moved from Pycnonotus to Rubigula.^[6]

It has five species:^[6]

^ Blyth, Edward (1845). "Notices and descriptions of various new or little known species of birds (continued)". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 14, Part 2 (164): 546–602 [576].
^ Gray, George Robert (1855). Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum. London: British Museum. p. 47.
^ Mayr, Ernst; Greenway, James C. Jr, eds. (1960). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 9. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 223.
^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 339. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
^ Shakya, Subir B.; Sheldon, Frederick H. (2017). "The phylogeny of the world's bulbuls (Pycnonotidae) inferred using a supermatrix approach". Ibis. 159 (3): 498–509. doi:10.1111/ibi.12464.
^ ^a ^b Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (January 2021). "Bulbuls". IOC World Bird List Version 11.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 26 June 2021.