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Chestnut bellied tit

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Aves

Family
  
Paridae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Passeriformes

Genus
  
Sittiparus

Similar
  
Sittiparus, White‑fronted tit, Caspian tit, Acacia tit, Miombo tit

The chestnut-bellied tit (Sittiparus castaneoventris) is a small passerine bird in the tit family Paridae that is endemic to Taiwan.

The chestnut-bellied tit was first described by the English ornithologist John Gould in 1863 and given the binomial name Parus castaneoventris. It was formerly considered as a subspecies of the varied tit but was promoted to species status after the publication of a phylogenetic study in 2014.

The species differs from the varied tit in having underparts of a deep chestnut colour.

References

Chestnut-bellied tit Wikipedia