Turdoides

Turdoides
Brown babbler (Turdoides plebejus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Leiothrichidae
Genus:	Turdoides Cretzschmar, 1826
Type species
Turdoides leucocephala (white-headed babbler) Cretzschmar, 1826
Species
See list

Turdoides 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 which forage in noisy groups. The majority of species have drab brown or grey-brown plumage. Several species that were included in Turdoides in the past have been reassigned to Argya following a 2018 study that found multiple clades.^[1]

The genus Turdoides was introduced in 1826 by the German physician Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar specifically for the white-headed babbler.^[2] The name combines the thrush genus Turdus with the Ancient Greek -oidēs meaning "resembling".^[3]

Species

The genus contains the following 19 species:^[4]

Image	Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
	Turdoides nipalensis	Spiny babbler	Nepal
-	Turdoides atripennis	Capuchin babbler	African tropical rainforest
-	Turdoides gilberti	White-throated mountain babbler	Cameroonian Highlands forests
-	Turdoides chapini	Chapin's babbler	western foothills of Albertine Rift montane forests
-	Turdoides rufocinctus	Red-collared babbler	Albertine Rift montane forests
	Turdoides plebejus	Brown babbler	northern sub-Saharan Africa
-	Turdoides leucopygia	White-rumped babbler	Horn of Africa
	Turdoides hindei	Hinde's babbler	Kenya
	Turdoides squamulata	Scaly babbler	riverine and coastal Horn of Africa : Tana, Jubba and Shebelle rivers
	Turdoides jardineii	Arrow-marked babbler	central/southern sub-Saharan Africa
	Turdoides gymnogenys	Bare-cheeked babbler	western Angola and northern Namibia
-	Turdoides leucocephala	White-headed babbler	eastern Sudan, western Ethiopia and Eritrea
	Turdoides reinwardtii	Blackcap babbler	West Africa to southern CAF
-	Turdoides tenbrosa	Dusky babbler	western, eastern and southern South Sudan and adjacent areas
	Turdoides bicolor	Southern pied babbler	Kalahari Basin
-	Turdoides hartlaubii	Hartlaub's babbler	central-southern sub-Saharan Africa
	Turdoides sharpei	Black-lored babbler	Lake Victoria basin
	Turdoides melanops	Black-faced babbler	southern Angola, northern Namibia and Botswana
	Turdoides hypoleuca	Northern pied babbler	Kenya and Tanzania

References

1. Cibois, Alice; Gelang, Magnus; Alström, Per; Pasquet, Eric; Fjeldså, Jon; Ericson, Per G. P.; Olsson, Urban (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.
2. Cretzschmar, Philipp Jakob (1826). "Vögel". In Rüppell, Eduard (ed.). Atlas zu der Reise im nördlichen Afrika (in German). Vol. 1826–1828. Frankfurt am Main: Heinr. Ludw. Brönner. pp. 1–55 [6–7, plate 4].
3. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 392. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
4. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Laughingthrushes and allies". World Bird List Version 10.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 16 January 2019.

• 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.