Aegithalos
| Aegithalos | |
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| Long-tailed tit (Ae. caudatus europaeus), France | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Aegithalidae |
| Genus: | Aegithalos Hermann, 1804 |
| Type species | |
| Pipra europaea Hermann, 1804 = Aegithalos caudatus europaeus (Hermann, 1804) | |
| Species | |
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see text | |
| Synonyms | |
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Orites G.R.Gray, 1841 (preoccupied: non Keyserling & Blasius, 1840: synonym; non Moehring, 1758: suppressed) | |
Aegithalos is a genus of passerine birds in the family Aegithalidae (bushtits), encompassing the majority of the species in the family. They are native to Europe and Asia.
Taxonomy
[edit]The genus Aegithalos was introduced in 1804 by the French naturalist Johann Hermann to accommodate a single species, which he had otherwise tentatively named Pipra europaea Hermann, 1804.[1] This is a subspecies of Parus caudatus Linnaeus, 1758, now Aegithalos caudatus europaeus, the central European long-tailed tit.[2][3] The genus name is a term used by Aristotle for some European tits, including the long-tailed tit.[4]
Species
[edit]The genus contains the following eight species:[5]
| Image | Common name | Scientific name | Subspecies | Distribution |
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 | Long-tailed tit | Aegithalos caudatus | 17 | Throughout Europe and northern Asia, east to Kamchatka and Japan. |
 | Silver-throated bushtit | Aegithalos glaucogularis | 2 | Central and eastern China and south towards Yunnan. |
 | White-cheeked bushtit | Aegithalos leucogenys | Monotypic | Afghanistan, Kashmir region, and Pakistan. |
.jpg) | Pygmy bushtit | Aegithalos exilis | Monotypic | Western and central Java, Indonesia. |
 | Black-throated bushtit | Aegithalos concinnus | 7 | Foothills of the Himalaya, across northern India through north-eastern Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, northern Myanmar, China, Vietnam, to Taiwan; includes Ae. c. annamensis and Ae. c. iredalei, formerly sometimes treated as separate species.[6] |
_JEG9985_(cropped).jpg) | White-throated bushtit | Aegithalos niveogularis | Monotypic | India, Nepal, and Pakistan. |
.jpg) | Black-browed bushtit | Aegithalos iouschistos | 4 | Eastern and central Himalayas in Bhutan, China, India, Nepal and far northern Burma; includes Ae. i. bonvaloti and Ae. i. sharpei, formerly sometimes treated as separate species.[6] |
 | Sooty bushtit | Aegithalos fuliginosus | Monotypic | central China. |
Fossil record
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ Hermann, Johann (1804). Observationes zoologicae quibus novae complures, aliaeque animalium species describuntur et illustrantur (in Latin). Argentorati [Strasbourg]: Amandum Koenig. p. 214.
- ↑ Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1986). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 12. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 52.
- ↑ Dickinson, E.C.; Christidis, L., eds. (2014). The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World (PDF). Vol. 2: Passerines (4th ed.). Eastbourne, UK: Aves Press. p. 508. ISBN 978-0-9568611-2-2.
- ↑ Jobling, James A. "Aegithalos". The Key to Scientific Names. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Retrieved 27 March 2025.
- ↑ AviList Core Team (2025). "AviList: The Global Avian Checklist, v2025". doi:10.2173/avilist.v2025. Retrieved 29 March 2026.
- 1 2 Hoyo, Josep del (2020). All the Birds of the World. Barcelona: Lynx edicions. pp. 630–631. ISBN 978-84-16728-37-4.
- 1 2 Kessler, E. 2013. Neogene songbirds (Aves, Passeriformes) from Hungary. – Hantkeniana, Budapest, 2013, 8: 37-149.
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