Oriolus

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Orioles
Black-naped Oriole.jpg
Black-naped oriole (Oriolus chinensis)
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Oriolidae
Genus: Oriolus
Linnaeus, 1766
Type species
Oriolus galbula [1]
Linnaeus, 1766
Synonyms
  • Analcipus
  • Broderipus
  • Mimeta
  • Psaropholus
  • Xanthonotus

Orioles are colourful Old World passerine birds in the genus Oriolus, the type genus of the corvoidean family Oriolidae. They are not closely related to the New World orioles, which are icterids (family Icteridae) that belong to the superfamily Passeroidea.

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Taxonomy and systematics

The genus Oriolus was erected in 1766 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the 12th edition of his Systema Naturae . [2] The type species is, by tautonomy, Oriolus galbula Linnaeus, 1766. This is a junior synonym of Coracias oriolus Linnaeus, 1758, the Eurasian golden oriole. [3] In 1760, French ornithologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in his Ornithologie used Oriolus as a subdivision of the genus Turdus, [4] but the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature ruled in 1955 that "Oriolus Brisson, 1760" should be suppressed. [5] Linnaeus added more than a dozen additional genera when he updated his 10th edition, but he generally based new genera on those that had been introduced by Brisson in his Ornithologie. Oriolus is now the only genus for which Linnaeus's 12th edition is cited as the original publication. [6] [7] The name is derived from the old French word oriol, which is echoic in origin, derived from the call of the bird, [8] but some authors have suggested origins in classical Latin aureolus meaning "golden". Various forms of "oriole" have existed in Romance languages since the 12th and 13th centuries. [9]

Extant species

 
 

szalayi

 

melanotis

flavocinctus

sagitattus
 

phaeochromus

 

bouroensis

forsteni

 
 
 
 

chlorocephalus

brachyrhynchus

xanthornus

 
 
 
 
 

nigripennis

percivali

larvatus

monacha

 
 
 

diffusus

 
 

oriolus

kundoo

 

chinensis (part)

melanisticus

maculatus

auratus

 
 

hosii

cruentus

 

mellianus

trailli

 

xanthonotus

 

steerei

 

albiloris

isabellae

Relatedness of species within the genus: Two forms that have not been included in the sequencing and analysis are O. crassirostris, which is expected to be close to O. brachyrhynchus, and O. tenuirostris, which is expected to be close to O. diffusus [10]

The genus contains 32 species: [7]

ImageCommon NameScientific nameDistribution
Brown oriole Oriolus szalayiNew Guinea
Dusky-brown oriole Oriolus phaeochromusNorth Maluku
Grey-collared oriole Oriolus forsteniSeram
Black-eared oriole Oriolus bouroensisBuru Island
Tanimbar oriole Oriolus decipiensTanimbar Islands
Timor oriole Oriolus melanotisTimor, Rote and Semau Islands
Wetar oriole Oriolus finschiWetar and Atauro Islands
Olive-backed Oriole - Crossroads Reserve.jpg Olive-backed oriole Oriolus sagittatuseastern Australia and south-central New Guinea.
Green oriole 1128.jpg Green oriole Oriolus flavocinctusAustralia and New Guinea
Dark-throated Oriole.jpg Dark-throated oriole Oriolus xanthonotusSoutheast Asia through Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Bangka, Java and southwestern Borneo
Ventriloquial oriole Oriolus consobrinusBorneo and the Philippines
Philippine oriole Oriolus steeriithe Philippines
White-lored oriole Oriolus albilorisLuzon Island (the Philippines)
Isabela oriole Oriolus isabellaeLuzon
Loriot d'Europe by Michel Idre.jpg Eurasian golden oriole Oriolus oriolusEurope and western Asia, and spends the winter season in central and southern Africa
IndianGoldenOriole M.jpg Indian golden oriole Oriolus kundooIndian subcontinent and Central Asia
African golden oriole (Oriolus auratus notatus).jpg African golden oriole Oriolus auratusAfrica south of the Sahara desert
Slender-billed Oriole Oriolus tenuirostris by Dr. Raju Kasambe DSC 4258 (4).jpg Slender-billed oriole Oriolus tenuirostriseastern Himalayas to Southeast Asia
Black-naped Oriole eyeing on Lannea coromandelica fruits W IMG 7470.jpg Black-naped oriole Oriolus chinensiseastern Siberia, Ussuriland, northeastern China, Korea and northern Vietnam
Green-headed Oriole specimen RWD.jpg Green-headed oriole Oriolus chlorocephaluseastern Africa
São Tomé oriole Oriolus crassirostrisisland of São Tomé
Western Black-headed Oriole - Kakum NP - Ghana 14 S4E3089 (16016463070) (cropped).jpg Western oriole Oriolus brachyrynchusAfrican tropical rainforest
Ethiopian oriole Oriolus monachanorth-eastern Africa
Mountain oriole Oriolus percivaliAlbertine Rift montane forests, Uganda and Kenya
Oriolus larvatus subsp larvatus, Lushof, Naboomspruit, b.jpg Black-headed oriole Oriolus larvatusAfrica
Black-winged oriole Oriolus nigripennisAfrican tropical rainforest
Black-hooded Oriole - Sri Lanka - 02.jpg Black-hooded oriole Oriolus xanthornustropical southern Asia from India and Sri Lanka east to Indonesia
Black oriole Oriolus hosiiSarawak in Borneo
Black and Crimson Oriole ( Oriolus cruentus).jpg Black-and-crimson oriole Oriolus consanguineusIndonesia and Malaysia
Javan oriole Oriolus cruentusIndonesia
Maroon oriole - Bird from Nepal by Krishna (107) - cropped.jpg Maroon oriole Oriolus trailliiSoutheast Asia
Oriolus mellianus 64974933 (cropped).jpg Silver oriole Oriolus mellianussouthern China and winters in mainland Southeast Asia

Former species

Formerly, some authorities also considered these species (or subspecies) as species within the genus Oriolus:

Distribution and habitat

The orioles are a mainly tropical group, although one species, the Eurasian golden oriole, breeds in temperate regions.

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