Phaenicophaeus

Phaenicophaeus
Chestnut-bellied malkoha (Phaenicophaeus sumatranus)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Cuculiformes
Family:	Cuculidae
Genus:	Phaenicophaeus Stephens, 1815
Type species
Cuculus pyrrhocephalus[1] Pennant, 1769

Phaenicophaeus is a genus of 6 species of cuckoos in the family Cuculidae.

Species

Genus Phaenicophaeus – Stephens, 1815 – six species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Black-bellied malkoha	Phaenicophaeus diardi (Lesson, 1830)	Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, and Thailand.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Chestnut-bellied malkoha	Phaenicophaeus sumatranus (Raffles, 1822)	Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, and Thailand.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Blue-faced malkoha	Phaenicophaeus viridirostris (Jerdon, 1840)	peninsular India and Sri Lanka.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Green-billed malkoha	Phaenicophaeus tristis (Lesson, 1830)	Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Chestnut-breasted malkoha	Phaenicophaeus curvirostris (Shaw, 1810) Six subspecies P. c. singularis P. c. oeneicaudus P. c. curvirostris P. c. deningeri P. c. microrhinus P. c. harringtoni	Southeast Asia from Myanmar through to eastern Java, the Philippines and Borneo	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Red-faced malkoha	Phaenicophaeus pyrrhocephalus (Pennant, 1769)	Sri Lanka	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC

References

External links

• Media related to Phaenicophaeus at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Phaenicophaeus at Wikispecies