Crinifer

Crinifer, is a genus of birds in the turaco family. They are restricted to Africa. Formerly, the genus only contained the plaintain-eaters. Recently the go-away birds were merged into the genus.

Crinifer
Western plantain-eater (Crinifer piscator) at Lotherton Hall, England
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Musophagiformes
Family: Musophagidae
Genus: Crinifer
Jarocki, 1821
Species

C. piscator
C. zonurus

The genus was erected by the Polish zoologist Feliks Paweł Jarocki in 1821 with the western plantain-eater (Crinifer piscator) as the type species.[1] The name combines the Latin crinis meaning "hair" and -fer meaning "bearing".[2]

The genus now contains five species:.[3]

ImageScientific nameCommon NameDistribution
Crinifer zonurusEastern plantain-eatereast Africa.
Crinifer piscatorWestern plantain-eaterwest Africa
Crinifer personatusBare-faced go-away-birdEthiopia, and Burundi, DRC, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
Crinifer concolorGrey go-away-birdsouthern Angola, southern DRC, Zambia, southern Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Swaziland
Crinifer leucogasterWhite-bellied go-away-birdeastern Africa

References
  1. Peters, James Lee, ed. (1940). Check-list of Birds of the World. Volume 4. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 9.
  2. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 121. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  3. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Turacos, bustards, cuckoos, mesites, sandgrouse". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
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