Calliope (genus)
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Calliope is a genus of passerine birds in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae.
| Calliope | |
|---|---|
| |
| Male Siberian rubythroat (Calliope calliope) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Muscicapidae |
| Subfamily: | Saxicolinae |
| Genus: | Calliope Gould, 1836 |
| Type species | |
| Calliope lathamii[1] Gould, 1836 | |
The species were previously placed in the genus Luscinia. A large molecular phylogenetic study published in 2010 found that Luscinia as defined in 2003 by Edward C. Dickinson was not monophyletic.[2][3] The genus Calliope, with the type species, Calliope calliope, was reinstated to accommodate a well-defined clade.[4][5] Although the blackthroat (Calliope obscura) had not been included in the 2010 phylogenetic analysis, a subsequent study found that the firethroat and the blackthroat were sister species and not colour morphs of the same species as some publications had previously suggested.[6]
The genus Calliope was introduced by the English ornithologist John Gould in 1836.[7][8] Calliope, from classical Greek meaning beautiful-voiced, was one of the muses in Greek mythology and presided over eloquence and heroic poetry.[9]
The genus contains the following five species:[4]
- Himalayan rubythroat (Calliope pectoralis)
- Chinese rubythroat (Calliope tschebaiewi) - formerly considered as a subspecies of the Himalayan rubythroat
- Siberian rubythroat (Calliope calliope)
- Firethroat (Calliope pectardens)
- Blackthroat (Calliope obscura)
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