Yuhina
| Yuhina | |
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| White-collared yuhina Yuhina diademata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Zosteropidae |
| Genus: | Yuhina Hodgson, 1836 |
| Species | |
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| Synonyms | |
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Staphida | |
Yuhina (from yuhin, Nepali for Y. gularis)[1] is a genus of bird which is placed in the Zosteropidae family by recent molecular phylogeny studies[2] or included within the Old World babbler Timaliidae family.[3]
It contains the following species:
- Striated yuhina (Yuhina castaniceps)
- Indochinese yuhina (Yuhina torqueola)
- Chestnut-crested yuhina (Yuhina everetti)
- White-naped yuhina (Yuhina bakeri)
- Whiskered yuhina (Yuhina flavicollis)
- Burmese yuhina (Yuhina humilis)
- Stripe-throated yuhina (Yuhina gularis)
- White-collared yuhina (Yuhina diademata)
- Rufous-vented yuhina (Yuhina occipitalis)
- Taiwan yuhina (Yuhina brunneiceps)
- Black-chinned yuhina (Yuhina nigrimenta)
The white-bellied yuhina (Erpornis zantholeuca) was formerly in this genus.
References
- ↑ Jobling, James A. (1991). A Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. Oxford University Press. p. 252. ISBN 0-19-854634-3.
- ↑ Gelang, M.; Cibois, A.; Pasquet, E.; Olsson, U.; Alström, P.; Ericson, P. G. P. (2009). "Phylogeny of babblers (Aves, Passeriformes): major lineages, family limits and classification" (PDF). Zoologica Scripta. 38: 225–236. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2008.00374.x.
- ↑ Collar, N. J.; Robson, C. (2007). "Family Timaliidae (Babblers)". In del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Christie, D.A. Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 12. Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions. pp. 70–291.
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