Rufous-naped tit
| Rufous-naped tit | |
|---|---|
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| At Kullu (Himachal Pradesh India) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Paridae |
| Genus: | Periparus |
| Species: | P. rufonuchalis |
| Binomial name | |
| Periparus rufonuchalis (Blyth, 1849) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Parus rufonuchalis Blyth, 1849 | |
The rufous-naped tit (Periparus rufonuchalis), also known as the black-breasted tit or dark-grey tit, is an Asian songbird species in the tit and chickadee family (Paridae). It was sometimes considered conspecific with the rufous-vented tit (P. rubidiventris), and was formerly placed in the genus Parus.[1]
This tit is a native of the western Himalayas, but has a very large range, occurring in parts of India, China, Pakistan, Turkestan, Kyrgyzstan, and Afghanistan. Widespread and common, it is not considered a threatened species by the IUCN.[2]
Footnotes
References
- BirdLife International (BLI) (2008). Parus rufonuchalis. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 12 May 2009.
- Gill, Frank B.; Slikas, Beth & Sheldon, Frederick H. (2005): Phylogeny of titmice (Paridae): II. Species relationships based on sequences of the mitochondrial cytochrome-b gene. Auk 122(1): 121-143. DOI: 10.1642/0004-8038(2005)122[0121:POTPIS]2.0.CO;2 HTML abstract
External links
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