Alcippe

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Craniata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Classis: Reptilia
Cladus: Eureptilia
Cladus: Romeriida
Subclassis: Diapsida
Cladus: Sauria
Infraclassis: Archosauromorpha
Cladus: Crurotarsi
Divisio: Archosauria
Subsectio: Ornithodira
Subtaxon: Dinosauromorpha
Cladus: Dinosauria
Ordo: Saurischia
Cladus: Theropoda
Cladus: Neotheropoda
Infraclassis: Aves
Ordo: Passeriformes
Subordo: Passeri
Infraordo: Passerida
Superfamilia: Sylvioidea

Familia: Pellorneidae
Genus: Alcippe
Species: A. brunnea - A. brunneicauda - A. castaneceps - A. chrysotis - A. cinerea - A. cinereiceps - A. dubia - A. ludlowi - A. morrisonia - A. nipalensis - A. peracensis - A. poioicephala - A. pyrrhoptera - A. ruficapilla - A. rufogularis - A. striaticollis - A. variegaticeps - A. vinipectus

Name

Alcippe Blyth, 1844
References
The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 13 p. 370,384

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Alcippe is a genus of passerine birds in the monotypic family Alcippeidae. The genus once included many other fulvettas and was previously placed in families Pellorneidae or Timaliidae.
Taxonomy

The genus Alcippe previously included many of the fulvettas, but recent taxonomy has seen the group progressively redefined. The Fulvetta fulvettas are now placed in family Paradoxornithidae, the bush blackcap in the genus Sylvia in the family Sylviidae, and, in the most revision, a group of seven species were transferred to the new genus Schoeniparus in family Pellorneidae. With the rearrangement of the species there are now birds with the common name "fulvetta" in three families: in the genera Lioparus and Fulvetta in Paradoxornithidae,[1] Schoeniparus in Pellorneidae, and Alcippe in Alcippeidae.[2]

The family Alcippeidae is sister to the family Leiothrichidae containing the laughingthrushes.[3]

The genus contains the following ten species:[2]

Brown fulvetta (Alcippe brunneicauda)
Brown-cheeked fulvetta (Alcippe poioicephala)
Javan fulvetta (Alcippe pyrrhoptera)
Mountain fulvetta (Alcippe peracensis)
Black-browed fulvetta (Alcippe grotei)
Grey-cheeked fulvetta (Alcippe morrisonia)
David's fulvetta (Alcippe davidi)
Yunnan fulvetta (Alcippe fratercula)
Huet's fulvetta (Alcippe hueti)
Nepal fulvetta (Alcippe nipalensis)

References

Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (January 2021). "Sylviid babblers, parrotbills, white-eyes". IOC World Bird List Version 11.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (January 2021). "Babblers, scimitar babblers, ground babblers, Alcippe fulvettas". IOC World Bird List Version 11.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 17 June 2021.

Cai, T.; Cibois, A.; Alström, P.; Moyle, R.G.; Kennedy, J.D.; Shao, S.; Zhang, R.; Irestedt, M.; Ericson, P.G.P.; Gelang, M.; Qu, Y.; Lei, F.; Fjeldså, J. (2019). "Near-complete phylogeny and taxonomic revision of the world's babblers (Aves: Passeriformes)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 130: 346–356. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2018.10.010.

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.