Urosphena

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Urosphena
Urosphena squameiceps.jpg
Asian stubtail (Urosphena squameiceps)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Cettiidae
Genus: Urosphena
Swinhoe, 1877
Type species
Tribura squameiceps [1]
Swinhoe, 1862

Urosphena is a genus of Old World warblers in the family Cettiidae, formerly classified in the family Sylviidae. The genus was erected by Robert Swinhoe in 1877.

These warblers are generally brown on the upper parts and lighter in color below with a brown, gray, or yellowish wash. They are similar to genus Cettia but have shorter tails. [2]

Species

ImageCommon nameScientific nameDistribution
Urosphena squameiceps.jpg Asian stubtail Urosphena squameicepsTaiwan, southeastern China, Nepal and Philippines
Timor stubtail Urosphena subulataTimor and northern and eastern adjacent islands.
Bornean stubtail Urosphena whiteheadiBorneo.

References

  1. ↑ "Scotocercidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
  2. ↑ Alström, P. et al. (2011). "Non-monophyly and intricate morphological evolution within the avian family Cettiidae revealed by multilocus analysis of a taxonomically densely sampled dataset". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 11: 352.


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