Philepitta

Philepitta is a genus of bird in the family Philepittidae. Established by Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire in 1838, the genus contains the following species:[1]

ImageScientific nameCommon nameDistribution
Philepitta castaneaVelvet asityeastern Madagascar
Philepitta schlegeliSchlegel's asitynorthwestern Madagascar

Philepitta
Velvet asity (Philepitta castanea)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Philepittidae
Genus: Philepitta
I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1838

The genus name Philepitta is a combination of the French name philédon, for the friarbirds of the family Meliphagidae and pitta, for the birds of the genus "pitta".[2]

Philepitta is now the type-genus of a new bird family, the Philepittidae, into which the Asites of Madagascar have been placed.[3]

References

  1. "ITIS Report: Philepitta". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  2. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Names. London, UK: Christopher Helm. p. 302. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  3. Winkler, D.W; Billerman, S.M.; Lovette, I.J (2015). Bird Families of the World. Barcelona, Spain: Lynx Edicions. pp. 275–276. ISBN 978-84-941892-0-3.


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