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Ordo: Cuculiformes

Familia: Cuculidae
Genus: Phaenicophaeus
Species: P. curvirostris – P. diardi – P. leschenaultii – P. pyrrhocephalus – P. sumatranus – P. tristis – P. viridirostris
Name

Phaenicophaeus Stephens, 1815

Typus: Cuculus pyrrhocephalus Pennant, 1769 = Phaenicophaeus pyrrhocephalus

Synonyms

Rhopodytes Cabanis & Heine, Jr., 1863 Mus.Hein p. 61 BHL
Taccocua Lesson, 1830

References

General Zoology 9 (1): 58

Vernacular names
English: Malkohas
Türkçe: Malkohalar

Phaenicophaeus is a genus of seven species of cuckoos in the family Cuculidae that are found in South and Southeast Asia.
Taxonomy

The genus Phaenicophaeus was introduced in 1815 by the English naturalist James Francis Stephens. He included three species in the genus but in 1940 James L. Peters designated one of these, Cuculus pyrrhocephalus Pennant, 1769 (the red-faced malkoha), as the type species.[1][2] The genus name is from Ancient Greek φοινικοφαης (phoinikophaēs) meaning "of crimson appearance" or "red-gleaming".[3]
Species

The genus contains seven species.[4]

Genus PhaenicophaeusStephens, 1815 – seven species
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range IUCN status and estimated population
Chestnut-breasted malkoha

Phaenicophaeus curvirostris
(Shaw, 1810)

Five subspecies
  • P. c. singularis
  • P. c. curvirostris
  • P. c. deningeri
  • P. c. microrhinus
  • P. c. harringtoni
Southeast Asia from Myanmar through to eastern Java, the Philippines and Borneo  LC 
Mentawai malkoha


Phaenicophaeus oeneicaudus
Verreaux, J & Verreaux, É, 1855
Mentawai Islands off the western coast of Sumatra  LC 


Black-bellied malkoha


Phaenicophaeus diardi
(Lesson, 1830)
Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, and Thailand.  LC 


Chestnut-bellied malkoha

Phaenicophaeus sumatranus
(Raffles, 1822)
Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, and Thailand.  LC 


Blue-faced malkoha

Phaenicophaeus viridirostris
(Jerdon, 1840)
peninsular India and Sri Lanka.  LC 


Green-billed malkoha

Phaenicophaeus tristis
(Lesson, 1830)
Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia  LC 



Red-faced malkoha

Phaenicophaeus pyrrhocephalus
(Pennant, 1769)
Sri Lanka
Map of range
 LC 



References

Stephens, James Francis (1812). General Zoology, or Systematic Natural History. Vol. 9, Part 1. London: Kearsley et al. p. 58.
Peters, James Lee, ed. (1940). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 4. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 56.
Jobling, James A. "Phaenicophaeus". The Key to Scientific Names. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Retrieved 31 August 2024.
Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2024). "Turacos, bustards, cuckoos, mesites, sandgrouse". IOC World Bird List Version 14.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 31 August 2024.

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