Laticilla

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Laticilla
SaurabhSawant Rufous-ventedPrinia Harike MG 7576.jpg
Rufous-vented grass babbler, Laticilla burnesii
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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]

Species

The genus contains the following species: [3]

ImageCommon nameScientific nameDistribution
Rufous-vented Prinia (Laticilla burnesii) (24769757207).jpg Rufous-vented grass babbler Laticilla burnesiiPakistan, northwestern India and Nepal.
Swamp grass babbler Laticilla cinerascensstate of Assam, India, and in nearby parts of northern Bangladesh

References

  1. ↑ "Pellorneidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
  2. ↑ Olsson, U.; Irestedt, M.; Sangster, G.; Ericson, P.G.P.; Alström, P. (2013). "Systematic revision of the avian family Cisticolidae based on a multi-locus phylogeny of all genera". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 66 (3): 790–9. Bibcode:2013MolPE..66..790O. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2012.11.004. PMID   23159891.
  3. 1 2 Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2017). "Babblers & fulvettas". World Bird List Version 7.3. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  4. ↑ Blyth (1845). "Notices and descriptions of new or little known species of birds (continued)". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 14 Part 2: 546–602 [596].
  5. ↑ Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds. (1986). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 11. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 128.
  6. ↑ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 220. ISBN   978-1-4081-2501-4.
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