Tarsiger | |
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Collared bush robin (Tarsiger johnstoniae) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
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]
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. [8]
The phylogenetic relationships between the species were determined in a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2022: [7]
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