Vietnamese Cutia

Vietnamese Cutia
Vietnamese Cutia
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Timaliidae
Genus: Cutia
Species: C. legalleni
Binomial name
Cutia legalleni
Robinson & Kloss, 1919
Synonyms

Cutia nipalensis legalleni

The Vietnamese Cutia (Cutia legalleni) is a bird species in the family Timaliidae. It is found in Laos and Vietnam.

It was long considered a subspecies of the Himalayan Cutia (C. nipalensis), making the genus Cutia monotypic. In recent times, it is more often elevated to full species status.

Its natural habitat is tropical moist montane forests[1]. The Vietnamese Cutia is not considered threatened by the IUCN, but as its range is far more restricted than of its western relative, it is classified as a Near Threatened species after the split.[2]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Collar & Robson (2007)
  2. ^ BLI (2008a,b)

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