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.[2][3] 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.[4][5]
| Sittiparus | |
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| Varied tit (Sittiparus varius) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Paridae |
| Genus: | Sittiparus de Sélys-Longchamps, 1884 |
| Type species | |
| Parus varius[1] Temminck & Schlegel, 1845
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The genus contains the following species:[3]
| 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)[6] | Owston's tit | southern Izu Islands south of Japan | |
| Sittiparus olivaceus (split from S. varius)[6] | Iriomote tit | south west of Japan and to the east of Taiwan | |
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Sittiparus castaneoventris (split from S. varius)[6] | Chestnut-bellied tit | Taiwan |
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Sittiparus semilarvatus | White-fronted tit | Philippines |
The subspecies Daito varied tit, S. v. orii, became extinct in the 1940s, the only tit to have done so.
References
edit- ^ "Paridae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
- ^ 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. Bibcode:2013MolPE..69..852J. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2013.06.019. PMID 23831453.
- ^ a b Gill, Frank; Donsker, David (eds.). "Waxwings and their allies, tits & penduline tits". World Bird List Version 6.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
- ^ Selys-Longchamps, Edmund de (1884). "Considérations sur le genre mélange (Parus)". Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France (in French). 9: 32–78 [58].
- ^ Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1986). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 12. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 71.
- ^ a b c 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. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syu016. PMID 24603127.
- Harrap and Quinn, Tits, Nuthatches and Treecreepers ISBN 0-7136-3964-4
- "the Internet Bird Collection". Handbook of the Birds of the World. 2004–2007. Retrieved 2007-09-08.
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