Yuhina
White-collared yuhina
Yuhina diademata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Zosteropidae
Genus: Yuhina
Hodgson, 1836
Type species
Yuhina gularis (stripe-throated yuhina)
Hodgson, 1836
Species

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Yuhina is a genus of birds in the white-eye family Zosteropidae.

The genus Yuhina was introduced in 1836 by the English naturalist Brian Houghton Hodgson with the stripe-throated yuhina as the type species.[1][2] The genus name is from Nepali language.[1][3] The genus was formerly placed in the family Timaliidae. It was moved to Zosteropidae based on results of molecular phylogenetic studies.[4][5][6]

The genus contains the following seven species:[6]

The white-bellied erpornis (Erpornis zantholeuca) was formerly assigned to this genus, with the common name "white-bellied yuhina".

References

  1. ^ a b Hodgson, Brian Houghton (1836). "Notices of the ornithology of Nepal". Asiatic Researches. 19: 143–192 [165].
  2. ^ Mayr, Ernst; Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, eds. (1964). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 10. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 420.
  3. ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 412. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  4. ^ Cibois, Alice (2003). "Mitochondrial DNA Phylogeny of Babblers (Timaliidae)". The Auk. 120 (1): 35–54. doi:10.1093/auk/120.1.35.
  5. ^ Moyle, R.G.; Filardi, C.E.; Smith, C.E.; Diamond, J. (2009). "Explosive Pleistocene diversification and hemispheric expansion of a 'great speciator'". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106 (6): 1863–1868. Bibcode:2009PNAS..106.1863M. doi:10.1073/pnas.0809861105. PMC 2644129. PMID 19181851.
  6. ^ a b Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (January 2021). "Sylviid babblers, parrotbills, white-eyes". IOC World Bird List Version 11.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 17 June 2021.


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