Alethe (genus)

Alethe is a genus of small mainly insectivorous birds in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae that occur in West Africa.

Alethe
Alethe diademata diademata (Bonaparte, 1851)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Muscicapidae
Genus: Alethe
Cassin, 1859
Species

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The genus was erected by the American ornithologist John Cassin in 1859.[1] The genus was previously placed in the thrush family Turdidae but in 2010 two separate molecular phylogenetic studies found that species in the genus were more closely related to members of the Old World flycatcher family.[2][3]

The genus contains two species:[4]

Formerly in this genus

Four species are now assigned to Pseudalethe, a genus proposed in 2003[5] and supported by a study published in 2010.[2][4]

References
  1. Cassin, John (1859). "Catalogue of birds collected on the rivers Camma and Ogobai, Western Africa by Mr P.B. Duchaillu, in 1858, with notes and description of new species". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 11: 30–55 [43].
  2. Sangster, G.; Alström, P.; Forsmark, E.; Olsson, U. (2010). "Multi-locus phylogenetic analysis of Old World chats and flycatchers reveals extensive paraphyly at family, subfamily and genus level (Aves: Muscicapidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 57 (1): 380–392. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2010.07.008. PMID 20656044.
  3. Zuccon, D.; Ericson, P.G.P. (2010). "A multi-gene phylogeny disentangles the chat-flycatcher complex (Aves: Muscicapidae)". Zoologica Scripta. 39 (3): 213–224. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2010.00423.x.
  4. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David (eds.). "Chats, Old World flycatchers". World Bird List Version 6.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
  5. Beresford, Pamela (2003). "Molecular systematics of Alethe, Sheppardia and some other African robins (Muscicapoidea)". Ostrich. 74 (1–2): 58–73. doi:10.2989/00306520309485370.
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