Erythropitta

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Erythropitta
Black-crowned (or Black-and-crimson) Pitta (14204964493).jpg
Black-crowned pitta, Erythropitta ussheri
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Pittidae
Genus: Erythropitta
Bonaparte, 1854
Species

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Black-crowned pitta (E. ussheri) uttering whistles from a perch in Danum Valley, Sabah

Erythropitta is a genus of pitta. The members of the genus are found mostly in South-east Asia, with one species, the Papuan pitta, ranging into northeast Australia. The genus was formerly merged with the large genus Pitta, but a 2006 study split the family into three genera.

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Taxonomy

The pittas were at one time all usually placed in the genus Pitta , the only genus in the family Pittidae, but when a 2006 molecular phylogenetic study found that the pittas formed three separate groups, the genus was split and some species were moved into two resurrected genera, Erythropitta and Hydrornis . [1] The genus Erythropitta had been introduced in 1854 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte. [2] The type species was subsequently designated as the Papuan pitta (Erythropitta macklotii). [3] The name Erythropitta combines the Ancient Greek word eruthros "red" with the genus name Pitta. [4]

Pittas in this genus have red or crimson coloured underparts, greenish or blueish backs and short tails. They are mostly small in size. [1]

Species

The genus contains the following 13 species: [5]

ImageScientific nameCommon NameDistribution
Erythropitta kochi Whiskered pitta Luzon in the Philippines.
Philippine Pitta - Luzon - Philippines H8O8963 (16302644044).jpg Erythropitta erythrogaster Philippine pitta Philippines.
Erythropitta dohertyi Sula pitta Sula and Banggai Islands
Erythropitta erythrogaster.jpg Erythropitta celebensis Sulawesi pitta Sulawesi, Manterawu, and Togian Islands
Erythropitta rubrinucha South Moluccan pitta Indonesia on Buru and Seram.
North Moluccan Pitta (cyanonota) 0A2A7090.jpg Erythropitta rufiventris North Moluccan pitta northern Moluccas
Erythropitta meeki Louisiade pitta Louisiade Archipelago in Papua New Guinea
Erythropitta novaehibernicae Bismarck pitta New Ireland Province in Papua New Guinea
Red-bellied pitta iron08.jpg Erythropitta macklotii Papuan pitta Aru Islands, New Guinea
Erythropitta arquata (Blue-banded Pitta).jpg Erythropitta arquata Blue-banded pitta Borneo
SMBR4339-Edit.jpg Erythropitta granatina Garnet pitta Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, and Thailand.
Pitta venusta-20030928.jpg Erythropitta venusta Graceful pitta Sumatra, Indonesia
Black-crowned Pitta (Erythropitta ussheri).jpg Erythropitta ussheri Black-crowned pitta Sabah in northern Borneo

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