Laticilla

Laticilla is a genus of small passerine birds in the family Pellorneidae. Members of the genus are found in Pakistan, Nepal, India and Bangladesh.

Laticilla
Rufous-vented grass babbler, Laticilla burnesii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Pellorneidae
Genus: Laticilla
Blyth, 1845

A molecular phylogenetic study of the Cisticolidae published in 2013 found that the rufous-vented grass babbler did not lie within the clade containing the other prinias but instead belonged to the Pellorneidae.[1] To create monophyletic genera, the rufous-vented prinia and the closely related swamp grass babbler were placed in the reintroduced genus Laticilla in the Pellorneidae.[2] The genus Laticilla had been erected by the English zoologist Edward Blyth in 1845 with the rufous-vented prinia as the type species. The genus replaced Eurycercus that Blyth had introduced in 1844 only to subsequently discover that the name was preoccupied.[3][4] The name Laticilla comes from the Latin latus for "wide" or "broad" and cilla for "tail".[5]

Species

The genus contains the following species:[2]

ImageCommon NameScientific nameDistribution
Rufous-vented grass babblerLaticilla burnesiiPakistan, northwestern India and Nepal.
Swamp grass babblerLaticilla cinerascensstate of Assam, India, and in nearby parts of northern Bangladesh

References
  1. Olsson, U.; Irestedt, M.; Sangster, G.; Ericson, P.G.P.; Alström, P. (2013). "Systematic revision of the avian family Cisticolidae based on a multi-locus phylogeny of all genera". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 66 (3): 790–9. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2012.11.004. PMID 23159891.
  2. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2017). "Babblers & fulvettas". World Bird List Version 7.3. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 25 August 2017.
  3. Blyth (1845). "Notices and descriptions of new or little known species of birds (continued)". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 14 Part 2: 546–602 [596].
  4. Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds. (1986). Check-list of Birds of the World. Volume 11. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 128.
  5. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 220. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
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