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Cyanoderma

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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

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.