Laticilla | |
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Rufous-vented grass babbler, Laticilla burnesii | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Pellorneidae |
Genus: |
Laticilla Blyth, 1845 |
Type species | |
Eurycercus burnesii
[1] Blyth, 1844
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Laticilla is a genus of small passerine birds in the family Pellorneidae. Members of the genus are found in Pakistan, Nepal, India and Bangladesh.
A molecular phylogenetic study of the Cisticolidae published in 2013 found that the rufous-vented grass babbler did not lie within the clade containing the other prinias but instead belonged to the Pellorneidae. [2] To create monophyletic genera, the rufous-vented prinia and the closely related swamp grass babbler were placed in the reintroduced genus Laticilla in the Pellorneidae. [3] The genus Laticilla had been erected by the English zoologist Edward Blyth in 1845 with the rufous-vented prinia as the type species. The genus replaced Eurycercus that Blyth had introduced in 1844 only to subsequently discover that the name was preoccupied. [4] [5] The name Laticilla comes from the Latin latus for "wide" or "broad" and cilla for "tail". [6]
The genus contains the following species: [3]
Image | Common Name | Scientific name | Distribution |
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Rufous-vented grass babbler | Laticilla burnesii | Pakistan, northwestern India and Nepal. | |
Swamp grass babbler | Laticilla cinerascens | state of Assam, India, and in nearby parts of northern Bangladesh |
Laticilla | |
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Rufous-vented grass babbler, Laticilla burnesii | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Pellorneidae |
Genus: |
Laticilla Blyth, 1845 |
Type species | |
Eurycercus burnesii
[1] Blyth, 1844
|
Laticilla is a genus of small passerine birds in the family Pellorneidae. Members of the genus are found in Pakistan, Nepal, India and Bangladesh.
A molecular phylogenetic study of the Cisticolidae published in 2013 found that the rufous-vented grass babbler did not lie within the clade containing the other prinias but instead belonged to the Pellorneidae. [2] To create monophyletic genera, the rufous-vented prinia and the closely related swamp grass babbler were placed in the reintroduced genus Laticilla in the Pellorneidae. [3] The genus Laticilla had been erected by the English zoologist Edward Blyth in 1845 with the rufous-vented prinia as the type species. The genus replaced Eurycercus that Blyth had introduced in 1844 only to subsequently discover that the name was preoccupied. [4] [5] The name Laticilla comes from the Latin latus for "wide" or "broad" and cilla for "tail". [6]
The genus contains the following species: [3]
Image | Common Name | Scientific name | Distribution |
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Rufous-vented grass babbler | Laticilla burnesii | Pakistan, northwestern India and Nepal. | |
Swamp grass babbler | Laticilla cinerascens | state of Assam, India, and in nearby parts of northern Bangladesh |