Alethe

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: Muscicapoidea

Familia: Muscicapidae
Genus: Alethe
Species: A. castanea – A. diademata
Name

Alethe Cassin, 1859
References

Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 11: 43.

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Alethe is a genus of small mainly insectivorous birds in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae that occur in West Africa.

The genus was erected by the American ornithologist John Cassin in 1859.[1] The genus was previously placed in the thrush family Turdidae but in 2010 two separate molecular phylogenetic studies found that species in the genus were more closely related to members of the Old World flycatcher family.[2][3]

The genus contains two species:[4]

White-tailed alethe, Alethe diademata
Fire-crested alethe, Alethe castanea

Formerly in this genus

Four species are now assigned to Pseudalethe, a genus proposed in 2003[5] and supported by a study published in 2010.[2][4]
References

Cassin, John (1859). "Catalogue of birds collected on the rivers Camma and Ogobai, Western Africa by Mr P.B. Duchaillu, in 1858, with notes and description of new species". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 11: 30–55 [43].
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.
Beresford, Pamela (2003). "Molecular systematics of Alethe, Sheppardia and some other African robins (Muscicapoidea)". Ostrich. 74 (1–2): 58–73. doi:10.2989/00306520309485370.