Dumetia

Dumetia is a genus of passerine birds in the Old World babbler family Timaliidae that are found in India and Sri Lanka.

Dumetia
Tawny-bellied babbler (Dumetia hyperythra)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Timaliidae
Genus: Dumetia
Blyth, 1852
Type species
Timalia hyperythra (tawny-bellied babbler)
Franklin, 1831
Species

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Taxonomy

The genus Dumetia was introduced in 1852 by the English zoologist Edward Blyth.[1] The genus name is from Latin dumetum, dumeti meaning "thicket".[2] Blyth listed two species in the genus and of these George Robert Gray in 1855 selected the tawny-bellied babbler as the type species.[3][4]

Species

The genus contains the following species:[5]

ImageCommon NameScientific nameDistribution
Tawny-bellied babblerDumetia hyperythranorth-central India to Sri Lanka
Dark-fronted babblerDumetia atricepswest India to Sri Lanka

References
  1. Blyth, Edward (1852). Catalogue of the Birds in the Museum Asiatic Society. Calcutta: J. Thomas. p. 140. Although the title page is dated 1849, the book was not published until 1852. See: Dickinson, E.C.; Overstreet, L.K.; Dowsett, R.J.; Bruce, M.D. (2011). Priority! The Dating of Scientific Names in Ornithology: a Directory to the literature and its reviewers. Northampton, UK: Aves Press. p. 74. ISBN 978-0-9568611-1-5.
  2. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 142. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  3. Gray, George Robert (1855). Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum. London: British Museum. p. 45.
  4. Mayr, Ernst; Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, eds. (1964). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 10. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 317.
  5. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2022). "Babblers & fulvettas". IOC World Bird List Version 12.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 17 September 2022.


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