Biology:Alcippe (bird)

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Alcippe fulvettas
Mountain Fulvetta.jpg
Mountain fulvetta (Alcippe peracensis)
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Superfamily: Sylvioidea
Family: Alcippeidae
Genus: Alcippe
Blyth, 1844
Type species
Alcippe poioicephala
Species

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Alcippe is a genus of passerine birds in the monotypic family Alcippeidae. The genus once included many other fulvettas and was previously placed in families Pellorneidae or Timaliidae.

Taxonomy

The genus Alcippe previously included many of the fulvettas, but recent taxonomy has seen the group progressively redefined. The Fulvetta fulvettas are now placed in family Paradoxornithidae, the bush blackcap in the genus Sylvia in the family Sylviidae, and, in the most recent revision, a group of seven species were transferred to the new genus Schoeniparus in family Pellorneidae. With the rearrangement of the species there are now birds with the common name "fulvetta" in three families: in the genera Lioparus and Fulvetta in Paradoxornithidae,[1] Schoeniparus in Pellorneidae, and Alcippe in Alcippeidae.[2]

The family Alcippeidae is sister to the family Leiothrichidae containing the laughingthrushes.[3]

Pycnonotidae – bulbuls (160 species)

Sylviidae – sylviid babblers (34 species)

Paradoxornithidae – parrotbills and myzornis (37 species)

Zosteropidae – white-eyes (146 species)

Timaliidae – tree babblers (57 species)

Pellorneidae – ground babblers (65 species)

Alcippeidae – Alcippe fulvettas (10 species)

Leiothrichidae – laughingthrushes and allies (133 species)

Phylogeny based on a study of the babblers by Cai and colleagues published in 2019.[2][3]


The genus contains the following ten species:[2]

Image Common Name Scientific name Distribution
Brown fulvetta Alcippe brunneicauda Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand
Alcippe poioicephala davisoni - Kaeng Krachan.jpg Brown-cheeked fulvetta Alcippe poioicephala Bangladesh, India and Southeast Asia.
Javan Fulvetta - Chibodas Gardens - West Java MG 4590 (30117376492).jpg Javan fulvetta Alcippe pyrrhoptera Indonesia.
Mountain Fulvetta.jpg Mountain fulvetta Alcippe peracensis Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam
Black-browed fulvetta Alcippe grotei Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Alcippe morrisonia.jpg Grey-cheeked fulvetta Alcippe morrisonia Taiwan.
David's fulvetta Alcippe davidi southern China and northern Vietnam.
Alcippe fratercula - Mae Wong.jpg Yunnan fulvetta Alcippe fratercula southern China, southeastern Myanmar and northern Indochina.
New Friend (9092698143).jpg Huet's fulvetta Alcippe hueti southeast China.
Nepal Fulvetta Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary West Bengal India 01.11.2015.jpg Nepal fulvetta Alcippe nipalensis Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Japan, Myanmar, Nepal, and Taiwan.

References

  1. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds (January 2021). "Sylviid babblers, parrotbills, white-eyes". IOC World Bird List Version 11.1. International Ornithologists' Union. https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/sylvias/. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds (January 2021). "Babblers, scimitar babblers, ground babblers, Alcippe fulvettas". IOC World Bird List Version 11.1. International Ornithologists' Union. https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/babblers/. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Cai, T.; Cibois, A.; Alström, P.; Moyle, R.G.; Kennedy, J.D.; Shao, S.; Zhang, R.; Irestedt, M. et al. (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. 
  • Collar, N. J. & Robson C. 2007. Family Timaliidae (Babblers) pp. 70 – 291 in; del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. & Christie, D.A. eds. Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 12. Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.

Wikidata ☰ Q583659 entry