Liocichla

Taxobox
name = Liocichla

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image_caption = Bugun Liocichla
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Timaliidae
genus = "Liocichla"
genus_authority = Swinhoe, 1877
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "L. phoenicea"
"L. omeiensis"
"L. steerii"
"L. bugunorum".

The liocichlas are a group of birds in the genus of the same name, "Liocichla", from the Old World babbler family. They are found in Asia from India to China. They are Old World babblers proper and belong to a clade also containing at least the "Leiothrix", the barwings, the minlas and the sibias. Among these, they are a basal lineage (Cibois 2003).

* Genus "Liocichla", the liocichlas
** Grey-faced Liocichla, "Liocichla omeiensis"
** Steere's Liocichla, "Liocichla steerii"
** Red-faced Liocichla, "Liocichla phoenicea"
** Bugun Liocichla, "Liocichla bugunorum"

The Bugun Liocichla was scientifically described in 2006; it had been recorded before only once, in 1995.

ee also

* Bird species new to science described in the 2000s

References

* Cibois, Alice (2003a): Mitochondrial DNA Phylogeny of Babblers (Timaliidae). "Auk" 120(1): 1-20. DOI: 10.1642/0004-8038(2003)120 [0035:MDPOBT] 2.0.CO;2 [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3793/is_200301/ai_n9225604 HTML fulltext without images]

* 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.