Turdoides

Turdoides
Brown babbler (Turdoides plebejus)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Leiothrichidae
Genus: Turdoides
Cretzschmar, 1826
Type species
Turdoides leucocephala (white-headed babbler)
Species

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Turdoides is a genus of passerine birds in the laughingthrush family Leiothrichidae. The species are distributed across Africa and southern Asia and are typically fairly large, long-tailed birds which forage in noisy groups. The majority of species have drab brown or grey-brown plumage. Several species that were included in Turdoides in the past have been reassigned to Argya following a 2018 study that found multiple clades.[1]

The genus Turdoides was introduced in 1826 by the German physician Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar specifically for the white-headed babbler.[2] The name combines the thrush genus Turdus with the Ancient Greek -oidēs meaning "resembling".[3]

Species

The genus contains the following 19 species:[4]

Image Scientific name Common name Distribution
  Turdoides nipalensis Spiny babbler Nepal
-  Turdoides atripennis Capuchin babbler African tropical rainforest
-  Turdoides gilberti White-throated mountain babbler Cameroonian Highlands forests
-  Turdoides chapini Chapin's babbler western foothills of Albertine Rift montane forests
-  Turdoides rufocinctus Red-collared babbler Albertine Rift montane forests
  Turdoides plebejus Brown babbler northern sub-Saharan Africa
-  Turdoides leucopygia White-rumped babbler Horn of Africa
  Turdoides hindei Hinde's babbler Kenya
  Turdoides squamulata Scaly babbler riverine and coastal Horn of Africa :

Tana, Jubba and Shebelle rivers

  Turdoides jardineii Arrow-marked babbler central/southern sub-Saharan Africa
  Turdoides gymnogenys Bare-cheeked babbler western Angola and northern Namibia
-  Turdoides leucocephala White-headed babbler eastern Sudan, western Ethiopia and Eritrea
  Turdoides reinwardtii Blackcap babbler West Africa to southern CAF
-  Turdoides tenbrosa Dusky babbler western, eastern and southern South Sudan
and adjacent areas
  Turdoides bicolor Southern pied babbler Kalahari Basin
-  Turdoides hartlaubii Hartlaub's babbler central-southern sub-Saharan Africa
  Turdoides sharpei Black-lored babbler Lake Victoria basin
  Turdoides melanops Black-faced babbler southern Angola, northern Namibia and Botswana
  Turdoides hypoleuca Northern pied babbler Kenya and Tanzania

References

  1. ^ Cibois, Alice; Gelang, Magnus; Alström, Per; Pasquet, Eric; Fjeldså, Jon; Ericson, Per G. P.; Olsson, Urban (2018). "Comprehensive phylogeny of the laughingthrushes and allies (Aves, Leiothrichidae) and a proposal for a revised taxonomy". Zoologica Scripta. 47 (4): 428–440. doi:10.1111/zsc.12296. S2CID 51883434.
  2. ^ Cretzschmar, Philipp Jakob (1826). "Vögel". In Rüppell, Eduard (ed.). Atlas zu der Reise im nördlichen Afrika (in German). Vol. 1826–1828. Frankfurt am Main: Heinr. Ludw. Brönner. pp. 1–55 [6–7, plate 4].
  3. ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 392. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  4. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Laughingthrushes and allies". World Bird List Version 10.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  • Collar, N. J. & Robson C. 2007. Family Timaliidae (Babblers) pp. 70 – 291 in; del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. & Christie, D.A. eds. Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 12. Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
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