Sittiparus Explained
Sittiparus is a genus of birds in the tit family Paridae. The species in the genus were formerly included in Parus but were moved to Sittiparus when Parus was split into several resurrected genera following the publication of a detailed molecular phylogenetic analysis in 2013.[1] [2] The genus Sittiparus had originally been erected by the Belgium politician and naturalist Edmond de Sélys Longchamps in 1884 with the varied tit as the type species.[3] [4]
The genus contains the following species:[2]
| Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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| Sittiparus varius | Varied tit | eastern Asia in Japan, Korea, and locally in northeastern China (southern Liaoning) and extreme southeastern Russia (southern Kurile Islands) |
| Sittiparus owstoni (split from S. varius)[5] | Owston's tit | southern Izu Islands south of Japan |
| Sittiparus olivaceus (split from S. varius) | Iriomote tit | south west of Japan and to the east of Taiwan |
| Sittiparus castaneoventris (split from S. varius) | Chestnut-bellied tit | Taiwan |
| Sittiparus semilarvatus | White-fronted tit | Philippines |
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The subspecies Daito varied tit, S. v. orii, became extinct in the 1940s, the only tit to have done so.
References
- Harrap and Quinn, Tits, Nuthatches and Treecreepers
- Web site: the Internet Bird Collection . 2004–2007 . Handbook of the Birds of the World . 2007-09-08.
Notes and References
- Johansson . U.S. . Ekman . J. . Bowie . R.C.K. . Halvarsson . P. . Ohlson . J.I. . Price . T.D. . Ericson . P.G.P. . 2013 . A complete multilocus species phylogeny of the tits and chickadees (Aves: Paridae) . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution . 69 . 3 . 852–860 . 10.1016/j.ympev.2013.06.019 . 23831453. 2013MolPE..69..852J .
- Web site: Gill . Frank . Donsker . David . Waxwings and their allies, tits & penduline tits . World Bird List Version 6.1 . International Ornithologists' Union. 15 February 2016 .
- Selys-Longchamps . Edmund de . Edmond de Sélys Longchamps . 1884 . Considérations sur le genre mélange (Parus) . French . Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France . 9 . 32–78 [58] .
- Book: Paynter . Raymond A. Jr . 1986 . Check-list of Birds of the World . 12 . Museum of Comparative Zoology . Cambridge, Massachusetts . 71 .
- McKay . B.D. . Mays Jnr . H.L. . Tao . C.-T. . Wan . D. . Higuchi . H. . Nishium . I. . 2014 . Incorporating color into integrative taxonomy: analysis of the Varied Tit (Sittiparus varius) complex in East Asia . Systems Biology . 63 . 4 . 505–517 . 10.1093/sysbio/syu016 . 24603127. free .
