Fulvetta

Typical fulvettas
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Sylviidae
Genus: Fulvetta
David & Oustalet, 1877
Species

8, and see text

Fulvetta is a songbird genus. Originally proposed in 1877, it was recently reestablished for the typical fulvettas, which were long included with their presumed relatives in the Timaliidae (Old World babbler) genus Alcippe.[1] But they are actually quite closely related to the typical warblers and therefore a member of the family Sylviidae.

It contains the following species:

Footnotes

  1. Collar & Robson (2007)

References

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