Pseudoalcippe Explained
Pseudoalcippe is a genus of passerine birds in the family Sylviidae that are found in Africa.
The genus was erected by the English ornithologist David Armitage Bannerman in 1923.[1] The type species is the Ruwenzori hill babbler.
The genus contains two species:[2]
These two species were previously considered as members of the family Timaliidae (Old World babblers) but molecular phylogenetic studies have shown that they are closely related to species belonging to the genus Sylvia in the family Sylviidae.[3] [4] Some taxonomists now place both species in Sylvia.[5] [6]
Notes and References
- Bannerman . David Armitage . David Armitage Bannerman . 1923 . Pseudoalcippe . Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . 44 . 26 .
- Web site: Gill . Frank . Frank Gill (ornithologist) . Donsker . David . 2017 . Sylviid babblers, parrotbills & white-eyes . World Bird List Version 7.3 . International Ornithologists' Union . 7 September 2017 .
- Cibois . Alice . 2003 . Mitochondrial DNA phylogeny of babblers (Timaliidae) . The Auk . 120 . 1 . 35–54 . 10.1642/0004-8038(2003)120[0035:MDPOBT]2.0.CO;2 . 4090138 . 85629890 .
- Voelker . Gary . Light . Jessica E. . 2011 . Palaeoclimatic events, dispersal and migratory losses along the Afro-European axis as drivers of biogeographic distribution in Sylvia warblers . BMC Evolutionary Biology . 11 . 163 . 163 . 10.1186/1471-2148-11-163 . free . 21672229 . 3123607. 2011BMCEE..11..163V .
- Web site: Collar . N. . Robson . C. . 2017 . Ruwenzori Hill-babbler (Sylvia atriceps) . del Hoyo . J. . Elliott . A. . Sargatal . J. . Christie . D.A. . de Juana . E. . Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive . Lynx Edicions . 8 September 2017 . subscription .
- Web site: Collar . N. . Robson . C. . 2017 . African Hill-babbler (Sylvia abyssinica) . del Hoyo . J. . Elliott . A. . Sargatal . J. . Christie . D.A. . de Juana . E. . Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive . Lynx Edicions . 27 August 2017 . subscription .
