Species profile
Javan Leafbird
Chloropsis cochinchinensis
Quick answer
Syntype: MHNG 129.056, adult male, collected in Java between 1811 and 1817 by T. Horsfield. Warren & Harrison (1971: 273) treated this name as a nomen nudum, and they did not give the NHM specimen a type status. Because Horsfield provided some “ indications ” (although less than for the other species), we follow Sherborn who listed this name in his Index Animalium (1927: 3285).
- Scientific name
- Chloropsis cochinchinensis
- Family
- Chloropseidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Chloropsis
- Conservation status
- Endangered
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Related species in Chloropseidae
- Blue-masked Leafbird (Chloropsis venusta)
- Blue-winged Leafbird (Chloropsis moluccensis)
- Bornean Leafbird (Chloropsis kinabaluensis)
- Golden-fronted Leafbird (Chloropsis aurifrons)
- Greater Green Leafbird (Chloropsis sonnerati)
- Jerdon's Leafbird (Chloropsis jerdoni)
- Lesser Green Leafbird (Chloropsis cyanopogon)
- Orange-bellied Leafbird (Chloropsis hardwickii)