Chlorophoneus

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| image=Olive Bushshrike (Telophorus olivaceus).jpg

| image_caption=Olive bushshrike (Chlorophoneus olivaceus)

| taxon=Chlorophoneus

| authority=Cabanis, 1851

| type_species = Lanius rubiginosus{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=132 |title= Malacontidae |author= |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-07-16}}

| type_species_authority = Sundevall, 1850

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Chlorophoneus is a genus of bird in the bushshrike family, Malaconotidae.

Extant Species

It contains the following species:

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ImageScientific nameCommon NameDistribution
120pxChlorophoneus bocageiBocage's bushshrikeAngola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda.
120pxChlorophoneus sulfureopectusOrange-breasted bushshrikeSub-Saharan Africa (relatively absent from most of Central, Southern and the Horn of Africa)
120pxChlorophoneus olivaceusOlive bushshrikeMalawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe.
Chlorophoneus multicolorMany-colored bushshrikeWest Africa and also in western, northern parts of Central Africa and the eastern Congo Basin.
120pxChlorophoneus nigrifronsBlack-fronted bushshrikecentral Kenya southwards through Tanzania to northern Malawi,southern Malawi, Mozambique, eastern Zimbabwe and north-eastern South Africa. .
Chlorophoneus kupeensisMount Kupe bushshrikeCameroon

==References==

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  • Lack, Peter (2007) [http://www.africanbirdclub.org/resources/checklist.html ABC African Checklist] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130106145809/http://www.africanbirdclub.org/resources/checklist.html |date=2013-01-06 }}. Downloaded 18/09/07.

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Category:Bird genera

Category:Taxa named by Jean Cabanis

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