Tarsiger Explained

Tarsiger is a genus of six species of birds in the family Muscicapidae. They are small, mostly brightly coloured insectivorous birds native to Asia and (one species) northeastern Europe; four of the six species are confined to the Sino-Himalayan mountain system.[1] The genus has sometimes been included within the related genus Luscinia, but the species have been found to form a distinct monophyletic group.[2]

Taxonomy

The genus Tarsiger was introduced in 1845 by the English naturalist Brian Houghton Hodgson with the golden bush robin as the type species.[3] [4] The genus name is from Ancient Greek tarsos, "flat of the foot" and Latin gerere, "to carry".[5]

The genus contains the following species:[6]

The Himalayan bluetail was formerly treated as a subspecies of the red-flanked bluetail.[1] It was split on the basis of its more intense plumage colours, and its ecology and behaviour, being a short-distance altitudinal migrant not a long-distance migrant.[7]

The phylogenetic relationships between the species were determined in a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2022:[8]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Collar, N.J. . 2005 . Genus Tarsiger . del Hoyo . J. . Elliott . A. . Christie . D.A. . Handbook of the Birds of the World . 10: Cuckoo-shrikes to Thrushes . Barcelona, Spain . Lynx Edicions . 978-84-87334-72-6 . 754–756 . https://archive.org/details/handbookofbirdso0010unse/page/754/mode/1up . registration .
  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 . 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.07.008 . 20656044 . 2010MolPE..57..380S .
  3. Hodgson . Brian Houghton . Brian Houghton Hodgson . 1845 . Abstract of a paper on Nepalese birds . Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London . 13 . 22–37 [28] .
  4. Book: Mayr . Ernst . Ernst Mayr . Paynter . Raymond A. Jr . 1964 . Check-List of Birds of the World . 10 . Museum of Comparative Zoology . Cambridge, Massachusetts . 33 .
  5. Book: Jobling, James A. . 2010. The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . Christopher Helm . London, United Kingdom . 978-1-4081-2501-4 . 379 .
  6. Web site: Gill . Frank . Frank Gill (ornithologist) . Donsker . David . Rasmussen . Pamela . Pamela Rasmussen . January 2022 . Chats, Old World flycatchers . IOC World Bird List Version 12.1 . International Ornithologists' Union . 4 August 2022 .
  7. Book: Rasmussen . Pamela C. . Pamela C. Rasmussen . Anderton . John C. . 2012 . Birds of South Asia. The Ripley Guide . 2: Attributes and Status . 2nd . Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and Lynx Edicions . Washington D.C. and Barcelona . 978-84-96553-87-3 . 393–394 .
  8. Wei . C. . Sangster . G. . Olsson . U. . Rasmussen . P.C. . Svensson . L. . Yao . C.-T. . Carey . G.J. . Leader . P.J. . Zhang . R. . Chen . G. . Song . G. . Lei . F. . Wilcove . D.S. . Alström . P. . Liu . Y. . 2022 . Cryptic species in a colorful genus: Integrative taxonomy of the bush robins (Aves, Muscicapidae, Tarsiger) suggests two overlooked species . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution . 175 . 107580 . 10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107580. 35810968 . free . 2022MolPE.17507580W .

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