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Parus is a genus of Old World birds in the tit family. It was formerly a large genus containing most of the 50 odd species in the family Paridae. The genus was split into several resurrected genera following the publication of a detailed molecular phylogenetic analysis in 2013.[1][2] The genus name, Parus, is the Latin word for "tit".
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Great tit Parus major | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Paridae |
Genus: | Parus Linnaeus, 1758 |
Type species | |
Parus major (great tit) Linnaeus, 1758 | |
Species | |
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Distribution of the species in the genus Parus. Parus bokharensis is now treated as a subspecies of P. major |
The genus Parus was introduced in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae.[3] The genus name is Latin for "tit".[4] Of the 12 species included in the genus by Linnaeus, the type species was designated as the great tit (Parus major) by George Robert Gray in 1840.[5][6]
The genus now contains the following species:[2]
Common name | Scientific name and subspecies | Range | Size and ecology | IUCN status and estimated population |
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Great tit | Parus major Linnaeus, 1758 Fifteen subspecies
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Europe![]() |
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Cinereous tit | Parus cinereus (, ) Nineteen subspecies
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West Asia across South Asia and into Southeast Asia.![]() |
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Green-backed tit | Parus monticolus Vigors, 1831 |
Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Burma, Nepal, Pakistan, Taiwan and Vietnam.![]() |
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