Dumetia

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Dumetia
Tawny bellied warbler 2 by David Raju (cropped).jpg
Tawny-bellied babbler (Dumetia hyperythra)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Timaliidae
Genus: Dumetia
Blyth, 1852
Type species
Timalia hyperythra (tawny-bellied babbler)
Franklin, 1831
Species

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Dumetia is a genus of passerine birds in the Old World babbler family Timaliidae that are found in India and Sri Lanka.

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Taxonomy

The genus Dumetia was introduced in 1852 by the English zoologist Edward Blyth. [1] The genus name is from Latin dumetum, dumeti, meaning "thicket." [2] Blyth listed two species in the genus, and of these, George Robert Gray in 1855 selected the tawny-bellied babbler as the type species. [3] [4]

Species

The genus contains the following species: [5]

ImageCommon NameScientific nameDistribution
Tawny bellied warbler 2 by David Raju (cropped).jpg Tawny-bellied babbler Dumetia hyperythranorth-central India to Sri Lanka
Dark-fronted Babbler.jpg Dark-fronted babbler Dumetia atricepswest India to Sri Lanka

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References

  1. ↑ Blyth, Edward (1852). Catalogue of the Birds in the Museum Asiatic Society. Calcutta: J. Thomas. p. 140. Although the title page is dated 1849, the book was not published until 1852. See: Dickinson, E.C.; Overstreet, L.K.; Dowsett, R.J.; Bruce, M.D. (2011). Priority! The Dating of Scientific Names in Ornithology: a Directory to the literature and its reviewers. Northampton, UK: Aves Press. p. 74. ISBN   978-0-9568611-1-5.
  2. ↑ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 142. ISBN   978-1-4081-2501-4.
  3. ↑ Gray, George Robert (1855). Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum. London: British Museum. p. 45.
  4. ↑ Mayr, Ernst; Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, eds. (1964). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 10. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 317.
  5. ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2022). "Babblers & fulvettas". IOC World Bird List Version 12.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 17 September 2022.


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