Biology:Laticilla
| Laticilla | |
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| Rufous-vented grass babbler, Laticilla burnesii | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Pellorneidae |
| Genus: | Laticilla Blyth, 1845 |
| Type species | |
| Eurycercus burnesii[1] Blyth, 1844
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Laticilla is a genus of small passerine birds in the family Pellorneidae. Members of the genus are found in Pakistan, Nepal, India and Bangladesh.
A molecular phylogenetic study of the Cisticolidae published in 2013 found that the rufous-vented grass babbler did not lie within the clade containing the other prinias but instead belonged to the Pellorneidae.[2] To create monophyletic genera, the rufous-vented prinia and the closely related swamp grass babbler were placed in the reintroduced genus Laticilla in the Pellorneidae.[3] The genus Laticilla had been erected by the English zoologist Edward Blyth in 1845 with the rufous-vented prinia as the type species. The genus replaced Eurycercus that Blyth had introduced in 1844 only to subsequently discover that the name was preoccupied.[4][5] The name Laticilla comes from the Latin latus for "wide" or "broad" and cilla for "tail".[6]
Species
The genus contains the following species:[3]
| Image | Common Name | Scientific name | Distribution |
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Rufous-vented grass babbler | Laticilla burnesii | Pakistan, northwestern India and Nepal. |
| Swamp grass babbler | Laticilla cinerascens | state of Assam, India, and in nearby parts of northern Bangladesh |
References
- ↑ "Pellorneidae". The Trust for Avian Systematics. https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=255.
- ↑ Olsson, U.; Irestedt, M.; Sangster, G.; Ericson, P.G.P.; Alström, P. (2013). "Systematic revision of the avian family Cisticolidae based on a multi-locus phylogeny of all genera". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66 (3): 790–9. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2012.11.004. PMID 23159891.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds (2017). "Babblers & fulvettas". World Bird List Version 7.3. International Ornithologists' Union. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/babblers/.
- ↑ Blyth (1845). "Notices and descriptions of new or little known species of birds (continued)". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 14 Part 2: 546–602 [596]. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40127371.
- ↑ Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds (1986). Check-list of Birds of the World. 11. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 128. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14483829.
- ↑ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 220. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4. https://archive.org/stream/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling#page/n220/mode/1up.
Wikidata ☰ Q14927696 entry
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