Cyanoderma
Genus of birds
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Cyanoderma is a genus of passerine birds in the Old World babbler family Timaliidae. Many of these species were formerly placed in the genus Stachyris
| Cyanoderma | |
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| Rufous-capped babbler (Cyanoderma ruficeps) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Timaliidae |
| Genus: | Cyanoderma Salvadori, 1874 |
| Type species | |
| Timalia erythroptera (chestnut-winged babbler) Blyth, 1842 | |
| Species | |
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Taxonomy
A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2012 found that the genus Stachyris was paraphyletic. In the subsequent reorganization to create monophyletic genera, the genus Cyanoderma was resurrected to accommodate a group of species formerly assigned to Stachyris.[1][2] The genus Cyanoderma had been introduced in 1874 by the Italian zoologist Tommaso Salvadori with chestnut-winged babbler as the type species.[3][4] The name combines the Ancient Greek kuanos meaning "dark-blue" with derma meaning "skin".[5]
Species
The genus contains the following species:[2]
| Image | Common name | Scientific name | Distribution |
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 | Chestnut-winged babbler | Cyanoderma erythropterum | Malay Peninsula, Sumatra |
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Grey-hooded babbler[6] | Cyanoderma bicolor | Borneo |
.jpg) | Crescent-chested babbler | Cyanoderma melanothorax | Java and Bali |
 | Rufous-fronted babbler | Cyanoderma rufifrons | Sikkim, Bhutan Dooars and northeast India |
 | Rufous-capped babbler | Cyanoderma ruficeps | Eastern Himalayas to northern Thailand, Laos, eastern China to Vietnam and Taiwan |
 | Black-chinned babbler | Cyanoderma pyrrhops | the Himalayas from the Murree Hills in Pakistan to eastern Nepal |
 | Golden babbler | Cyanoderma chrysaeum | the Eastern Himalayas to Southeast Asia |
Deignan's babbler Cyanoderma rodolphei collected in 1939 at Doi Chiang Dao in Thailand is considered synonymous with the rufous-fronted babbler.[7]
