White-fronted tit

The white-fronted tit (Sittiparus semilarvatus) is a species of bird in the family Paridae. It is endemic to the Philippines. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

White-fronted tit
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Paridae
Genus: Sittiparus
Species:
S. semilarvatus
Binomial name
Sittiparus semilarvatus
(Salvadori, 1865)
Synonyms

Cyanistes semilarvatus
Poecile semilarvatus

The white-fronted tit was formally described by the Italian ornithologist Tommaso Salvadori in 1865 under the binomial name Melaniparus semilarvatus.[2] The species was formerly included in the genus Parus but was moved to Sittiparus when Parus was split into several resurrected genera following the publication of a detailed molecular phylogenetic analysis in 2013.[3][4] The genus Sittiparus had originally been erected by the Belgium politician and naturalist Edmond de Sélys Longchamps in 1884 with the varied tit as the type species.[5][6]

There are three subspecies:[4]

  • S. s. snowi (Parkes, 1971) – north east Luzon
  • S. s. semilarvatus (Salvadori, 1865) – central and southern Luzon
  • S. s. nehrkorni (Blasius, W, 1890) – Mindanao

References
  1. BirdLife International (2016). "Sittiparus semilarvatus (Salvadori, 1865)". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016. Retrieved 4 November 2017.
  2. Salvadori, Tommaso (1865). "Descrizione di altre nuove specie di uccelli esistenti nel museo di Torino Nota Seconda". Atti della Società italiana di scienze naturali (in Latin and Italian). 8: 375-389 [377-378].
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Selys-Longchamps, Edmund de (1884). "Considérations sur le genre mélange (Parus)". Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France (in French). 9: 32–78 [58].
  6. Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1986). Check-list of Birds of the World. Volume 12. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 71.


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