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| Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Inopinaves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Suborder: | Passeri |
| Infraorder: | Passerida |
| Superfamily: | Sylvioidea |
| Clade: | Babbler clade |
| Family: | Sylviidae Vigors, 1825 |
| Synonyms | |
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Paradoxornithidae | |
Sylviid warblers, Sylviidae is a family of passerine birds that was part of an assemblage known as the Old World warblers. The family was formerly a wastebin taxon with over 400 species of bird in over 70 genera. The family was poorly defined with many characteristics shared with other families. Advances in classification, particularly helped with molecular data, have led to the splitting out of several new families from within this group. Today the smaller family Sylviidae includes the typical warblers in the genus Sylvia, the parrotbills of Asia (formerly a separate family Paradoxornithidae), a number of babblers formerly placed within the family Timaliidae (which is itself currently being split) and the Wrentit, an unusual North American bird that has been a longstanding taxonomic mystery.
Description[]
They are small to medium-sized, with generally thin, pointed bill with bristles at the base, a slender shape and an inconspicuos and mostly plain plumage. Then wings show ten primaries feather, and are rounded and short in non-migratory species.[1]
Species[]
Family Sylviidae sensu stricto[]
True warblers (or sylviid warblers) and parrotbills. A fairly diverse group of smallish taxa with longish tails. Mostly in Asia, to a lesser extent in Africa. A few range into Europe; one monotypic genus on west coast of North America.
Genus Sylvia[]
Temperate Eurasian superspecies ("atricapilla-borin group")
- Blackcap, Sylvia atricapilla
- Garden Warbler, Sylvia borin
Afrotropical superspecies
- Dohrn's Thrush-babbler / Principe Flycatcher-Babbler, Sylvia dohrni
- Bush Blackcap, Sylvia nigricapillus
- Ruwenzori Hill-Babbler, Sylvia atriceps
- African Hill-Babbler, Sylvia abyssinica
- Abyssinian Catbird, Sylvia galinieri
Genus Atraphornis[]
- Asian Desert-Warbler, Atraphornis nana
- African Desert-Warbler, Atraphornis deserti
Genus Curruca[]
Adophoneus
- Barred Warbler, Curruca [Adophoneus] nisoria
Parisoma
- Layard's Warbler, Curruca [Parisoma] layardi
- Banded Parisoma, Curruca [Parisoma] boehmi
- Chestnut-vented Warbler, Curruca [Parisoma] subcaeruleum'
Curruca clade
- Yemen Warbler, Curruca [Curruca] buryi
- Brown Warbler / Brown Parisoma, Curruca [Curruca] lugens
- Arabian Warbler, Curruca [Curruca] leucomelaena
- Western Orphean-Warbler, Curruca [Curruca] hortensis
- Eastern Orphean-Warbler, Curruca [Curruca] crassirostris
"Lesser Whitethroat" complex[2]
- Lesser Whitethroat, Curruca [Curruca] curruca
- Desert Whitethroat, Curruca [Curruca] minula
- •Siberian Whitethroat, Curruca [Curruca] blythi
- •Steppe Whitethroat, Curruca halimodendri
- Mountain Whitethroat / Hume's Whitethroat, Curruca [Curruca] althaea
- •Stolzmann's Whitethroat, Curruca [Curruca] margelanica
- Dots indicate new species.
Genus Melizophilus[]
- Tristram's Warbler, Melizophilus deserticola
- Menetries's Warbler, Melizophilus mystacea
- Common Whitethroat, Melizophilus communis
- Spectacled Warbler, Melizophilus conspicillata
- Marmora's Warbler, Melizophilus sarda
- Dartford Warbler, Melizophilus undata
- Balearic Warbler, Melizophilus balearica
- Cyprus Warbler, Melizophilus melanothorax
- Rueppell's Warbler, Melizophilus rueppelli
- Sardinian Warbler, Melizophilus melanocephala
- Levant Sardinian Warbler, Melizophilus (melanocephala) momus
- Fayyum Warbler, Melizophilus melanocephala norissae - doubtfully distinct, extinct (c.1940)
- Moltoni's Warbler, Melizophilus subalpina
- Western Subalpine Warbler, Melizophilus inornata
- Eastern Subalpine Warbler, Melizophilus cantillans
Now in Paradoxornithidae:[]
Genus Myzornis[]
- Fire-tailed Myzornis, Myzornis pyrrhoura[3]
Genus Rhopophilus[]
- Tarim Babbler, Rhopophilus albosuperciliaris
- Beijing Babbler / Chinese Hill Warbler, Rhopophilus pekinensis. Formerly in Cisticolidae.[4]
Genus Lioparus[]
- Golden-breasted Fulvetta, Lioparus chrysotis. Formerly in Alcippe (Timaliidae).[5]
Genus Paradoxornis[]
Typical parrotbills (18 species).
Genus Conostoma[]
- Great Parrotbill, Conostoma aemodium
Genus Fulvetta[]
Typical fulvettas (7 species). Formerly in Alcippe (Timaliidae).[6][7]
Genus Chrysomma[]
Genus Chamaea[]
References[]
- ^ del Hoyo, J. Elliott, A. & Christie, D. (editors). (2006) Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 11: Old World Flycatchers to Old World Warblers. Lynx Edicions. ISBN 84-96553-06-X
- ^ Olsson U1, Leader PJ, Carey GJ, Khan AA, Svensson L, Alström P. New insights into the intricate taxonomy and phylogeny of the Sylvia curruca complex. Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2013 April; 67(1): 72–85. Published online 2013 January 12. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.12.023
- ^ Gelang, Magnus; Alice Cibois, Eric Pasquet, Urban Olsson, Per Alström, Per G. P Ericson (2009). "Phylogeny of babblers (Aves, Passeriformes): major lineages, family limits and classification". Zoologica Scripta. 38 (3): 225–236. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2008.00374.x. Cite uses deprecated parameter
|coauthors=(help) - ^ Gelang, M., A. Cibois, E. Pasquet, U. Olsson, P. Alström and P.G.P. Ericson (2009), Phylogeny of babblers (Aves, Passeriformes): major lineages, family limits and classification, Zool. Scripta 38, 225-236. Article
- ^ Collar, N. & Robson, C. (2016). Golden-breasted Fulvetta (Lioparus chrysotis). In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. (retrieved from http://www.hbw.com/node/59391 on 8 March 2016).
- ^ Pasquet, E., E. Bourdon, M.V. Kalyakin, and A. Cibois (2006), The fulvettas (Alcippe, Timaliidae, Aves): a polyphyletic group, Zool. Scripta 35, 559-566.
- ^ Collar, N.J., and C. Robson (2007), Family Timaliidae (Babblers), in “Handbook of the Birds of the World, volume 12, Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees”, (del Hoyo, J., A. Elliott, and D. Christie, eds.), Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, pp. 70-291.
- ^ Collar, N., Robson, C. & Sharpe, C.J. (2016). Jerdon's Babbler (Chrysomma altirostre). In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. (retrieved from http://www.hbw.com/node/59387 on 8 March 2016).
- ^ Collar, N. & Robson, C. (2016). Yellow-eyed Babbler (Chrysomma sinense). In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. (retrieved from http://www.hbw.com/node/59388 on 9 March 2016).
- ^ Cibois, Alice (2003). "Mitochondrial DNA Phylogeny of Babblers (Timaliidae)". Auk. 120 (1): 1–20. JSTOR 4090138. doi:10.1642/0004-8038(2003)120[0035:MDPOBT]2.0.CO;2.
- ^ Pasquet, Eric; Bourdon, Estelle; Kalyakin, Mikhail V.; Cibois, Alice (2006). "The fulvettas (Alcippe), Timaliidae, Aves): a polyphyletic group". Zoologica Scripta. 35 (6): 559–566. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2006.00253.x.
- ^ Dunn, Jon L. and Alderfer, Jonathan (2011). National Geographic Completely Birds of North America. National Geographic Society. ISBN 9781426213731.
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