Chamaetylas
| Chamaetylas | |
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| Brown-chested alethe, Chamaetylas poliocephala | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Muscicapidae |
| Genus: | Chamaetylas Heine, 1860 |
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Pseudalethe | |
Chamaetylas is a genus of small, mainly insectivorous birds in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae that are native to sub-Saharan Africa.
The genus was introduced by the German ornithologist Ferdinand Heine in 1860.[1][2] Species in the genus were previously assigned to the genus Alethe which was included in the thrush family Turdidae. In 2010 two separate molecular phylogenetic studies found that Alethe was polyphyletic and that the genus was more closely related to the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae.[3][4]
The genus contains four species:[5]
- Red-throated alethe, Chamaetylas poliophrys
- White-chested alethe, Chamaetylas fuelleborni
- Brown-chested alethe, Chamaetylas poliocephala
- Thyolo alethe, Chamaetylas choloensis
References
- ^ Heine, Ferdinand (1860). "Neue bisher unbeschriebene Arten". Journal für Ornithologie (in German). 7: 425. The title page gives the year 1859 but page 463 has the date 22 January 1860.
- ^ Mayr, Ernst; Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, eds. (1964). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. Volume 10. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 61.
{{cite book}}:|volume=has extra text (help) - ^ Sangster, G.; Alström, P.; Forsmark, E.; Olsson, U. (2010). "Multi-locus phylogenetic analysis of Old World chats and flycatchers reveals extensive paraphyly at family, subfamily and genus level (Aves: Muscicapidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 57 (1): 380–392. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2010.07.008. PMID 20656044.
- ^ Zuccon, D.; Ericson, P.G.P. (2010). "A multi-gene phylogeny disentangles the chat-flycatcher complex (Aves: Muscicapidae)". Zoologica Scripta. 39 (3): 213–224. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2010.00423.x.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David (eds.). "Chats, Old World flycatchers". World Bird List Version 6.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
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