Melanocichla

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Melanocichla
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Timaliidae
Genus: Melanocichla
Sharpe, 1883
Type species
Timalia lugubris (black laughingthrush)
S. Müller, 1835
Species

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Melanocichla is a genus of birds in the Old World babbler family Timaliidae.

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Taxonomy

The genus Melanocichla was introduced in 1883 by the English ornithologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe to accommodate a single species, the black laughingthrush, which is therefore the type species of the genus. [1] [2] The name combines the Ancient Greek melas meaning "black" with kikhlkikhlē meaning "thrush". [3]

A 2019 molecular phylogenetic study found that the genus Melanocichla was sister to the genus Pomatorhinus containing the scimitar babblers. [4]

Species

The genus contains the following species: [5]

ImageCommon NameScientific nameDistribution
Black Laughingthrush Melanocichla lugubris, Malaysia 002k.jpg Black laughingthrush Melanocichla lugubrisextreme south Thailand, Malaysia and Sumatra
0A2A1562 Bare-headed Laughingthrush.jpg Bare-headed laughingthrush Melanocichla calvaBorneo

References

  1. ↑ Sharpe, R. Bowdler (1883). Catalogue of the Passeriformes or Perching Birds in the Collection of the British Museum. Cichlomorphae Part 4 Timeliidae. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Vol. 7. London: Trustees of the British Museum. p. 451.
  2. ↑ Mayr, Ernst; Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, eds. (1964). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 10. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 349.
  3. ↑ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 246. ISBN   978-1-4081-2501-4.
  4. ↑ Cai, T.; Cibois, A.; Alström, P.; Moyle, R.G.; Kennedy, J.D.; Shao, S.; Zhang, R.; Irestedt, M.; Ericson, P.G.P.; Gelang, M.; Qu, Y.; Lei, F.; Fjeldså, J. (2019). "Near-complete phylogeny and taxonomic revision of the world's babblers (Aves: Passeriformes)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 130: 346–356. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.10.010 . PMID   30321696.
  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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