Cyanistes
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https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/tag/10136
- Note
- "Cyanistes is a genus of birds in the tit family Paridae. The genus was at one time considered as a subgenus of Parus. In 2005 an article describing a molecular phylogenetic study that had examined mitochondrial DNA sequences from members of the tit family, proposed that a number of subgenera including Cyanistes be elevated to genus status. This proposal was accepted by the International Ornithologists´ Union and the British Ornithologists´ Union.
The genus contains three species:
Eurasian blue tit, Cyanistes caeruleusAfrican blue tit, Cyanistes teneriffaeAzure tit, Cyanistes cyanusYellow-breasted tit, Cyanistes cyanus flavipectusThe name Cyanistes was introduced for the subgenus by the German naturalist Jakob Kaup in 1829. The word comes from the classical Greek kuanos meaning dark-blue." - (en.wikipedia.org 09.03.2020)
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