Parus

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Parus is a genus of Old World birds in the tit family Paridae. It was formerly a large genus containing most of the 50 odd species in the family Paridae. The genus was split into several resurrected genera following the publication of a detailed molecular phylogenetic analysis in 2013.[1][2] The genus name, Parus, is the Latin word for "tit".

Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Passeriformes
Family:Paridae
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Parus
Great tit Parus major
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Paridae
Genus: Parus
Linnaeus, 1758
Type species
Parus major (great tit)
Linnaeus, 1758
Species

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Distribution of the species in the genus Parus. Parus bokharensis is now treated as a subspecies of P. major
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Taxonomy

The genus Parus was introduced in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae.[3] The genus name is Latin for "tit".[4] Of the 12 species included in the genus by Linnaeus, the type species was designated as the great tit (Parus major) by George Robert Gray in 1840.[5][6]

Species

The genus now contains the following three species:[2]

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Genus Parus – Linnaeus, 1758 – three species
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population
Great tit

 Parus major
Linnaeus, 1758

Fifteen subspecies
 Europe
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Cinereous tit

 Parus cinereus
(, )

Nineteen subspecies
  • P. c. decolorans Koelz, 1939
  • P. c. ziaratensis Whistler, 1929
  • P. c. caschmirensisHartert, EJO, 1905
  • P. c. planorum Hartert, EJO, 1905
  • P. c. vauriei Ripley, 1950
  • P. c. stupae Koelz, 1939
  • P. c. mahrattarum Hartert, EJO, 1905
  • P. c. templorum Meyer de Schauensee, 1946
  • P. c. hainanus Hartert, EJO, 1905
  • P. c. ambiguus (Raffles, 1822)
  • P. c. sarawacensis Slater, HH, 1885
  • P. c. cinereus Vieillot, 1818
  • P. c. minor Temminck & Schlegel, 1848
  • P. c. dageletensis Kuroda & Nm & Mori, 1920 )
  • P. c. amamiensis Kleinschmidt, 1922
  • P. c. nigriloris Hellmayr, 1900
  • P. c. tibetanus Hartert, EJO, 1905
  • P. c. commixtus Swinhoe, 1868
  • P. c. nubicolus Meyer de Schauensee, 1946
West Asia across South Asia and into Southeast Asia.
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Green-backed tit

 Parus monticolus
Vigors, 1831		 Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Burma, Nepal, Pakistan, Taiwan and Vietnam.
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