Cyanoderma | |
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Rufous-capped babbler (Cyanoderma ruficeps) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Timaliidae |
Genus: | Cyanoderma Salvadori, 1874 |
Type species | |
Timalia erythroptera (chestnut-winged babbler) Blyth, 1842
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Species | |
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Cyanoderma is a genus of passerine birds in the Old World babbler family Timaliidae. Many of these species were formerly placed in the genus Stachyris
A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2012 found that the genus Stachyris was paraphyletic. In the subsequent reorganization to create monophyletic genera, the genus Cyanoderma was resurrected to accommodate a group of species formerly assigned to Stachyris.[1][2] The genus Cyanoderma had been introduced in 1874 by the Italian zoologist Tommaso Salvadori with chestnut-winged babbler as the type species.[3][4] The name combines the Ancient Greek kuanos meaning "dark-blue" with derma meaning "skin".[5]
The genus contains the following species:[2]
Image | Common Name | Scientific name | Distribution |
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Chestnut-winged babbler | Cyanoderma erythropterum | Malay Peninsula, Sumatra |
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Grey-hooded babbler[6] | Cyanoderma bicolor | Borneo |
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Crescent-chested babbler | Cyanoderma melanothorax | Java and Bali |
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Rufous-fronted babbler | Cyanoderma rufifrons | Sikkim, Bhutan Dooars and northeast India |
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Rufous-capped babbler | Cyanoderma ruficeps | Eastern Himalayas to northern Thailand, Laos, eastern China to Vietnam and Taiwan |
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Black-chinned babbler | Cyanoderma pyrrhops | the Himalayas from the Murree Hills in Pakistan to eastern Nepal |
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Golden babbler | Cyanoderma chrysaeum | the Eastern Himalayas to Southeast Asia |
Deignan's babbler Cyanoderma rodolphei collected in 1939 at Doi Chiang Dao in Thailand is considered synonymous with the rufous-fronted babbler.[7]