Argya
| Argya | |
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| Jungle babbler (Argya striata) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Leiothrichidae |
| Genus: | Argya Lesson, RP, 1831 |
| Type species | |
| Malurus squamiceps[1] Cretzschmar, 1827 | |
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Argya is a genus of passerine birds in the laughingthrush family Leiothrichidae. The species are distributed across Africa and southern Asia and are typically fairly large, long-tailed birds that forage in noisy groups. Members of this genus were formerly placed in the genera Turdoides and Garrulax.
Taxonomy
Most of the species now placed in the genus Argya were previously assigned to the genus Turdoides. Following the publication of a molecular phylogenetic study in 2018, Turdoides was split and species were moved to the resurrected genus Argya that had been erected by the French naturalist René Lesson in 1831.[2][3][4] The name is from the Latin argutus meaning "noisy".[5] Lesson did not specify a type species but this was designated as the Arabian babbler (Argya squamiceps) by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855.[6][7]
The following cladogram showing the phylogenetic relationships between the species is based on a study by Alice Cibois and collaborators that was published in 2018. The Iraq babbler (Argya altirostris) and the orange-billed babbler (Argya rufescens) were not included in the study.[2] The Afghan babbler (Argya huttoni) has been split from the common babbler.[3]
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Species
The genus contains 16 species:[3][8]
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Large grey babbler | Argya malcolmi | India |
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Ashy-headed laughingthrush | Argya cinereifrons | Sri Lanka |
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Arabian babbler | Argya squamiceps | United Arab Emirates, Oman, Yemen and western Saudi Arabia |
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Fulvous babbler | Argya fulva | Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, and Tunisia. |
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White-throated babbler | Argya gularis | Myanmar. |
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Striated babbler | Argya earlei | Pakistan to Myanmar. |
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Iraq babbler | Argya altirostris | Iraq and south-western Iran |
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Common babbler | Argya caudata | India. |
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Afghan babbler | Argya huttoni | southeastern Iraq to south western Pakistan. |
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Rufous chatterer | Argya rubiginosa | Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. |
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Scaly chatterer | Argya aylmeri | Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and Tanzania. |
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Yellow-billed babbler | Argya affinis | southern India and Sri Lanka. |
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Jungle babbler | Argya striata | India |
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Orange-billed babbler | Argya rufescens | Sri Lanka. |
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Slender-billed babbler | Argya longirostris | Bangladesh, Nepal, Northeast India and possibly Myanmar |
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Rufous babbler | Argya subrufa | India |
References
- ^ "Leiothrichidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
- ^ a b Cibois, A.; Gelang, M.; Alström, P.; Pasquet, E.; Fjeldså, J.; Ericson, P.G.P.; Olsson, U. (2018). "Comprehensive phylogeny of the laughingthrushes and allies (Aves, Leiothrichidae) and a proposal for a revised taxonomy". Zoologica Scripta. 47 (4): 428–440. doi:10.1111/zsc.12296. S2CID 51883434.
- ^ a b c Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Laughingthrushes and allies". World Bird List Version 9.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
- ^ Lesson, René (1831). Traité d'Ornithologie, ou Tableau Méthodique (in French). Paris: F.G. Levrault. p. 402.
- ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 55. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ Gray, George Robert (1855). Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum. London: British Museum. p. 43, No. 723.
- ^ Mayr, Ernst; Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, eds. (1964). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 10. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 331.
- ^ 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.