Yuhina
| Yuhina | |
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| White-collared yuhina Yuhina diademata | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Zosteropidae |
| Genus: | Yuhina Hodgson, 1836 |
| Type species | |
| Yuhina gularis (stripe-throated yuhina) Hodgson, 1836
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| Species | |
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Yuhina is a genus of passerine birds in the white-eye family Zosteropidae that are found in the Himalayas and mainland Southeast Asia
Taxonomy
The genus Yuhina was introduced in 1836 by the English naturalist Brian Houghton Hodgson with the stripe-throated yuhina as the type species.[1][2] The genus name is from Nepali language.[1][3] The genus was formerly placed in the Old World babbler family Timaliidae. It was moved to Zosteropidae based on results of molecular phylogenetic studies.[4][5][6]
The genus contains the following seven species:[6]
| Image | Common name | Scientific name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black-chinned yuhina | Yuhina nigrimenta | northern India eastward to central and southeastern China, southward to western Myanmar, northern and central Laos, Vietnam, and far eastern Cambodia | |
| Taiwan yuhina | Yuhina brunneiceps | montane forest of Taiwan | |
| Whiskered yuhina | Yuhina flavicollis | Himalayas | |
| Burmese yuhina | Yuhina humilis | Myanmar to central Laos | |
| White-naped yuhina | Yuhina bakeri | mountains of northeastern India (Assam) to Myanmar and southern China (northwestern Yunnan) | |
| Stripe-throated yuhina | Yuhina gularis | Himalayas to south China and central Vietnam | |
| Rufous-vented yuhina | Yuhina occipitalis | Himalayas to south China |
The white-bellied erpornis (Erpornis zantholeuca) was formerly assigned to this genus, with the common name "white-bellied yuhina".
References
- ^ a b Hodgson, Brian Houghton (1836). "Notices of the ornithology of Nepal". Asiatic Researches. 19: 143–192 [165].
- ^ Mayr, Ernst; Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, eds. (1964). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 10. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 420.
- ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 412. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ Cibois, Alice (2003). "Mitochondrial DNA Phylogeny of Babblers (Timaliidae)". The Auk. 120 (1): 35–54. doi:10.1093/auk/120.1.35.
- ^ Moyle, R.G.; Filardi, C.E.; Smith, C.E.; Diamond, J. (2009). "Explosive Pleistocene diversification and hemispheric expansion of a 'great speciator'". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106 (6): 1863–1868. Bibcode:2009PNAS..106.1863M. doi:10.1073/pnas.0809861105. PMC 2644129. PMID 19181851.
- ^ a b AviList Core Team (2025). "AviList: The Global Avian Checklist, v2025". doi:10.2173/avilist.v2025. Retrieved 15 April 2026.