Family Paridae Rank Genus | Class Aves Phylum Chordata Order Passerine | |
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Similar Varied tit, White‑fronted tit, Passerine, Pardaliparus, Elegant tit | ||
Varied tit sittiparus varius
Sittiparus is a genus of birds in the tit family Paridae. The species in the genus were formerly included in Parus but were moved to Sittiparus when Parus was split into several resurrected genera following the publication of a detailed molecular phylogenetic analysis in 2013.
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The genus contains the following species:
The subspecies Daito varied tit, S. v. orii, became extinct in the 1940s, the only tit to have done so.
Varied tit sittiparus varius
References
Sittiparus Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA