Yellow-cheeked tit

Yellow-cheeked tit
An individual from Neora Valley National Park, West Bengal, India
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Paridae
Genus: Machlolophus
Species:
M. spilonotus
Binomial name
Machlolophus spilonotus
(Bonaparte, 1850)
Synonyms

Parus spilonotus

The yellow-cheeked tit (Machlolophus spilonotus) is a species of bird in the family Paridae. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. Its range extends across the eastern Himalayas, southern China and Indochina.

M. s. rex, Wuyi National Park, China

The yellow-cheeked tit was formerly one of the many species in the genus Parus but was moved to Machlolophus after a molecular phylogenetic analysis published in 2013 showed that the members of the new genus formed a distinct clade.

References

  1. ↑ BirdLife International (2016). "Machlolophus spilonotus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016 e.T22711934A94312793. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22711934A94312793.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  2. ↑ Johansson, U.S.; Ekman, J.; Bowie, R.C.K.; Halvarsson, P.; Ohlson, J.I.; Price, T.D.; Ericson, P.G.P. (2013). "A complete multilocus species phylogeny of the tits and chickadees (Aves: Paridae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 69 (3): 852–860. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2013.06.019. PMID 23831453.
  3. ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David (eds.). "Waxwings and their allies, tits & penduline tits". World Bird List Version 6.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 15 February 2016.