Argya
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Jungle babbler (Argya striata) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Leiothrichidae |
Genus: | Argya Lesson, RP, 1831 |
Type species | |
Malurus squamiceps[1] Cretzschmar, 1827 | |
Species | |
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Argya is a genus of passerine birds in the laughingthrush family Leiothrichidae. The species are distributed across Africa and southern Asia and are typically fairly large, long-tailed birds that forage in noisy groups. Members of this genus were formerly placed in the genera Turdoides and Garrulax.
Taxonomy
[edit]Most of the species now placed in the genus Argya were previously assigned to the genus Turdoides. Following the publication of a molecular phylogenetic study in 2018, Turdoides was split and species were moved to the resurrected genus Argya that had been erected by the French naturalist René Lesson in 1831.[2][3][4] The name is from the Latin argutus meaning "noisy".[5] Lesson did not specify a type species but this was designated as the Arabian babbler (Argya squamiceps) by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855.[6][7]
The following cladogram showing the phylogenetic relationships between the species is based on a study by Alice Cibois and collaborators that was published in 2018. The Iraq babbler (Argya altirostris) and the orange-billed babbler (Argya rufescens) were not included in the study.[2] The Afghan babbler (Argya huttoni) has been split from the common babbler.[3]
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Species
[edit]The genus contains 16 species:[3][8]
Image | Common Name | Scientific name | Distribution |
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![]() | Large grey babbler | Argya malcolmi | India |
![]() | Ashy-headed laughingthrush | Argya cinereifrons | Sri Lanka |
![]() | Arabian babbler | Argya squamiceps | United Arab Emirates, Oman, Yemen and western Saudi Arabia |
![]() | Fulvous babbler | Argya fulva | Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, and Tunisia. |
White-throated babbler | Argya gularis | Myanmar. | |
![]() | Striated babbler | Argya earlei | Pakistan to Myanmar. |
![]() | Iraq babbler | Argya altirostris | Iraq and south-western Iran |
![]() | Common babbler | Argya caudata | India. |
![]() | Afghan babbler | Argya huttoni | southeastern Iraq to south western Pakistan. |
![]() | Rufous chatterer | Argya rubiginosa | Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. |
![]() | Scaly chatterer | Argya aylmeri | Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and Tanzania. |
![]() | Yellow-billed babbler | Argya affinis | southern India and Sri Lanka. |
![]() | Jungle babbler | Argya striata | India |
![]() | Orange-billed babbler | Argya rufescens | Sri Lanka. |
![]() | Slender-billed babbler | Argya longirostris | Bangladesh, Nepal, Northeast India and possibly Myanmar |
![]() | Rufous babbler | Argya subrufa | India |
References
[edit]- ^ "Leiothrichidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
- ^ a b Cibois, A.; Gelang, M.; Alström, P.; Pasquet, E.; Fjeldså, J.; Ericson, P.G.P.; Olsson, U. (2018). "Comprehensive phylogeny of the laughingthrushes and allies (Aves, Leiothrichidae) and a proposal for a revised taxonomy". Zoologica Scripta. 47 (4): 428–440. doi:10.1111/zsc.12296. S2CID 51883434.
- ^ a b c Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Laughingthrushes and allies". World Bird List Version 9.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
- ^ Lesson, René (1831). Traité d'Ornithologie, ou Tableau Méthodique (in French). Paris: F.G. Levrault. p. 402.
- ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 55. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ Gray, George Robert (1855). Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum. London: British Museum. p. 43, No. 723.
- ^ Mayr, Ernst; Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, eds. (1964). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 10. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 331.
- ^ Collar, N. J. & Robson, C. 2007. Family Timaliidae (Babblers) pp. 70 – 291 in; del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. & Christie, D.A. eds. Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 12. Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.