Calliope (genus)

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Calliope (genus)

Calliope is a genus of passerine birds in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae.

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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
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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]

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