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Pellorneum

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Pellorneum
Javan black-capped babbler
Pellorneum capistratum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Parvorder: Sylviida
Superfamily: Sylvioidea
Family: Pellorneidae
Genus: Pellorneum
Swainson, 1832
Type species
Pellorneum ruficeps
Swainson, 1832
Synonyms

Trichastoma Blyth, 1842

Pellorneum is a genus of passerine birds in the family Pellorneidae. Some of its species were formerly placed in the genus Trichastoma.

The genus Pellorneum was introduced in 1832 by the English naturalist William Swainson with Pellorneum ruficeps, the puff-throated babbler, as the type species.[1][2] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek pellos meaning "dark-coloured" with orneon meaning "bird".[3]

The genus contains the following 18 species:[4]

ImageCommon nameScientific nameDistribution
Puff-throated babblerPellorneum ruficepsSouth Asia, Yunna, and Indochina
Brown-capped babblerPellorneum fuscocapillusSri Lanka
Marsh babblerPellorneum palustreNortheast India
Malayan black-capped babblerPellorneum nigrocapitatumwestern Malesia
Javan black-capped babblerPellorneum capistratumJava
Bornean black-capped babblerPellorneum capistratoidesBorneo
Mourning babblerPellorneum malaccenseMalesia
Glissando babblerPellorneum saturatumBangka Belitung Islands
Leaflitter babblerPellorneum poliogeneBorneo
Ashy-headed babblerPellorneum cinereicepsPalawan
Spot-throated babblerPellorneum albiventreEastern Himalaya, Yunnan and Indochina
Buff-breasted babblerPellorneum tickelliEastern Himalaya, Yunnan and Indochina
Sumatran babblerPellorneum buettikoferiBukit Barisan foothills
Temminck's babblerPellorneum pyrrogenysmontane Java and Borneo
Malayan swamp babblerPellorneum rostratumMalay Peninsula, Sumatra, Riau, Lingga and Belitung
Bornean swamp babblerPellorneum macropterumBorneo and Banggi Island
Ferruginous babblerPellorneum bicolorMalesia
Sulawesi babblerPellorneum celebenseSulawesi

References

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  1. ↑ Swainson, William; Richardson, J. (1831). Fauna Boreali-Americana, or, The Zoology of the Northern Parts of British America. Vol. 2: The Birds. London: J. Murray. p. 487. The title page bears the year 1831 but the volume was not published until 1832.
  2. ↑ Mayr, Ernst; Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, eds. (1964). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 10. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 240.
  3. ↑ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 296. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  4. ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (December 2023). "Babblers, scimitar babblers, ground babblers, Alcippe fulvettas". IOC World Bird List Version 14.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 30 January 2024.
  • Winkler, D. W.; S. M. Billerman; I. J. Lovette (2020). S. M. Billerman; B. K. Keeney; P. G. Rodewald; T. S. Schulenberg (eds.). "Genus Pellorneum". Birds of the World Online. 1.0. Ithaca, NY, USA: Cornell Lab of Ornithology.