Liocichla

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Liocichla
Bugun Liocichla
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Timaliidae Genus: Liocichla Swinhoe, 1877
Species
L. phoenicea L. omeiensis L. steerii L. bugunorum.

The liocichlas are a group of birds in the genus of the same name, Liocichla, from the Old World babbler family. They are found in Asia from India to China. They are Old World babblers proper and belong to a clade also containing at least the Leiothrix, the barwings, the minlas and the sibias. Among these, they are a basal lineage (Cibois 2003).

• Genus Liocichla, the liocichlas
  • Grey-faced Liocichla, Liocichla omeiensis
  • Steere's Liocichla, Liocichla steerii
  • Red-faced Liocichla, Liocichla phoenicea
  • Bugun Liocichla, Liocichla bugunorum

The Bugun Liocichla was scientifically described in 2006; it had been recorded before only once, in 1995.

[edit] See also

• Bird species new to science described in the 2000s

[edit] References

• Cibois, Alice (2003a): Mitochondrial DNA Phylogeny of Babblers (Timaliidae). Auk 120(1): 1-20. DOI: 10.1642/0004-8038(2003)120[0035:MDPOBT]2.0.CO;2 HTML fulltext without images

• 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.