Cyanoderma

Cyanoderma
Rufous-capped babbler (Cyanoderma ruficeps)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Timaliidae
Genus: Cyanoderma
Salvadori, 1874
Type species
Timalia erythroptera (chestnut-winged babbler)
Blyth, 1842
Species

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Cyanoderma is a genus of passerine birds in the Old World babbler family Timaliidae. Many of these species were formerly placed in the genus Stachyris

Taxonomy

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A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2012 found that the genus Stachyris was paraphyletic. In the subsequent reorganization to create monophyletic genera, the genus Cyanoderma was resurrected to accommodate a group of species formerly assigned to Stachyris.[1][2] The genus Cyanoderma had been introduced in 1874 by the Italian zoologist Tommaso Salvadori with chestnut-winged babbler as the type species.[3][4] The name combines the Ancient Greek kuanos meaning "dark-blue" with derma meaning "skin".[5]

Species

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The genus contains the following species:[2]

Image Common Name Scientific name Distribution
Chestnut-winged babbler Cyanoderma erythropterum Malay Peninsula, Sumatra
Grey-hooded babbler[6] Cyanoderma bicolor Borneo
Crescent-chested babbler Cyanoderma melanothorax Java and Bali
Rufous-fronted babbler Cyanoderma rufifrons Sikkim, Bhutan Dooars and northeast India
Rufous-capped babbler Cyanoderma ruficeps Eastern Himalayas to northern Thailand, Laos, eastern China to Vietnam and Taiwan
Black-chinned babbler Cyanoderma pyrrhops the Himalayas from the Murree Hills in Pakistan to eastern Nepal
Golden babbler Cyanoderma chrysaeum the Eastern Himalayas to Southeast Asia
Buff-chested babbler Cyanoderma ambiguum Eastern Himalayas to south Laos

Deignan's babbler Cyanoderma rodolphei collected in 1939 at Doi Chiang Dao in Thailand is considered synonymous with the rufous-fronted babbler.[7]

References

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  1. ^ Moyle, R.G.; Andersen, M.J.; Oliveros, C.H.; Steinheimer, F.D.; Reddy, S. (2012). "Phylogeny and biogeography of the core babblers (Aves: Timaliidae)". Systematic Biology. 61 (4): 631–651. doi:10.1093/sysbio/sys027. PMID 22328569.
  2. ^ a b Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2022). "Babblers & fulvettas". IOC World Bird List Version 12.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 23 September 2022.
  3. ^ Salvadori, Tommaso (1874). "Catalogo sistematico degli uccelli de Borneo". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova (in Italian and Latin). 5: 1–380 [213].
  4. ^ Mayr, Ernst; Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, eds. (1964). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 10. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. pp. 301–302.
  5. ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 126. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  6. ^ "Species Updates – IOC World Bird List". Retrieved 2021-05-28.
  7. ^ Collar, N. J. (2006). "A partial revision of the Asian babblers (Timaliidae)" (PDF). Forktail (22): 85–112.