| Chlorophoneus | |
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| Olive bushshrike (Chlorophoneus olivaceus) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Malaconotidae |
| Genus: | Chlorophoneus Cabanis, 1851 |
| Type species | |
| Lanius rubiginosus[1] Sundevall, 1850
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Chlorophoneus is a genus of bird in the bushshrike family, Malaconotidae.
Extant Species
It contains the following species:
| Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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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. |
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Chlorophoneus sulfureopectus | Orange-breasted bushshrike | Sub-Saharan Africa (relatively absent from most of Central, Southern and the Horn of Africa) |
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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. | |
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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
- ^ "Malacontidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
- Lack, Peter (2007) ABC African Checklist Archived 2013-01-06 at the Wayback Machine. Downloaded 18/09/07.
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