Pellorneum is a genus of passerine birds in the family Pellorneidae. Some of its species were formerly placed in the genus Trichastoma.
| Pellorneum | |
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| Javan black-capped babbler Pellorneum capistratum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Pellorneidae |
| Genus: | Pellorneum Swainson, 1832 |
| Type species | |
| Pellorneum ruficeps Swainson, 1832
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| Synonyms | |
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Trichastoma Blyth, 1842 | |
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]
- Puff-throated babbler (Pellorneum ruficeps)
- Brown-capped babbler (Pellorneum fuscocapillus)
- Marsh babbler (Pellorneum palustre)
- Malayan black-capped babbler (Pellorneum nigrocapitatum)
- Javan black-capped babbler (Pellorneum capistratum)
- Bornean black-capped babbler (Pellorneum capistratoides)
- Mourning babbler (Pellorneum malaccense) – "short-tailed babbler" before split
- Glissando babbler (Pellorneum saturatum) – split from P. malaccense
- Leaflitter babbler (Pellorneum poliogene) – split from P. malaccense
- Ashy-headed babbler (Pellorneum cinereiceps)
- Spot-throated babbler (Pellorneum albiventre)
- Buff-breasted babbler (Pellorneum tickelli)
- Sumatran babbler (Pellorneum buettikoferi)
- Temminck's babbler (Pellorneum pyrrogenys)
- Malayan swamp babbler (Pellorneum rostratum) – "white-chested babbler" before split
- Bornean swamp babbler (Pellorneum macropterum) – split from P. rostratum
- Ferruginous babbler (Pellorneum bicolor)
- Sulawesi babbler (Pellorneum celebense)
References
edit- ^ Swainson, William John; 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 296. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ 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.
- 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.
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