Tarsiger

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Tarsiger
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Collared bush robin (Tarsiger johnstoniae)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Muscicapidae
Subfamily: Saxicolinae
Genus: Tarsiger
Hodgson, 1845
Type species
Tarsiger chrysaeus (golden bush robin)
Hodgson, 1845

Tarsiger is a genus of six species of birds in the family Muscicapidae. They are small, mostly brightly coloured insectivorous birds native to Asia and (one species) northeastern Europe; four of the six species are confined to the Sino-Himalayan mountain system. [1] The genus has sometimes been included within the related genus Luscinia , but the species have been found to form a distinct monophyletic group. [2]

Taxonomy

The genus Tarsiger was introduced in 1845 by the English naturalist Brian Houghton Hodgson with the golden bush robin as the type species. [3] [4] The genus name is from Ancient Greek tarsos, "flat of the foot" and Latin gerere, "to carry". [5]

The genus contains the following species: [6]

The Himalayan bluetail was formerly treated as a subspecies of the red-flanked bluetail. [1] It was split on the basis of its more intense plumage colours, and its ecology and behaviour, being a short-distance altitudinal migrant not a long-distance migrant. [7]

The phylogenetic relationships between the species were determined in a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2022: [8]

Tarsiger

Rufous-breasted bush robin (Tarsiger hyperythrus)

Red-flanked bluetail (Tarsiger cyanurus)

Himalayan bluetail (Tarsiger rufilatus)

White-browed bush robin (Tarsiger indicus)

Collared bush robin (Tarsiger johnstoniae)

Golden bush robin (Tarsiger chrysaeus)

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