Argya

Argya is a genus of passerine birds in the 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.

Argya
Jungle babbler (Argya striata)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Leiothrichidae
Genus: Argya
Lesson, R, 1831
Species

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Taxonomy
 
 

Turdoides (strict sense)

 
 
 
 
 
 

Argya subrufa

 
 

Argya longirostris

 
 
 
 

Argya affinis

 
 

Argya striata

 
 
 
 
 
 

Argya aylmeri

 
 

Argya rubiginosa

 
 
 
 

Argya caudata

 
 
 
 

Argya earlei

 
 

Argya gularis

 
 
 
 

Argya fulva

 
 

Argya squamiceps

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Argya cinereifrons

 
 

Argya malcolmi

 
 
 
 
Relationships between the species examined in the 2018 phylogenetic study.[1]

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.[1][2][3] The name is from the Latin argutus meaning "noisy".[4] Lesson did not specify a type species but this was designated as the Arabian babbler (Argya sqamiceps) by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855.[5][6]

Species

The genus contains 16 species:[2][7]

References
  1. 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.
  2. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Laughingthrushes and allies". World Bird List Version 9.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  3. Lesson, René (1831). Traité d'Ornithologie, ou Tableau Méthodique (in French). Paris: F.G. Levrault. p. 402.
  4. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 55. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  5. Gray, George Robert (1855). Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum. London: British Museum. p. 43, No. 723.
  6. Mayr, Ernst; Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, eds. (1964). Check-List of Birds of the World. Volume 10. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 331.
  7. 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.
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