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Genus of birds From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Erythropitta is a genus of pitta. The members of the genus are found mostly in South-east Asia, with one species, the Papuan pitta, ranging into northeast Australia. The genus was formerly merged with the large genus Pitta, but a 2006 study split the family into three genera.
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Black-crowned pitta, Erythropitta ussheri | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Pittidae |
Genus: | Erythropitta Bonaparte, 1854 |
Species | |
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The pittas were at one time all usually placed in the genus Pitta, the only genus in the family Pittidae, but when a 2006 molecular phylogenetic study found that the pittas formed three separate groups, the genus was split and some species were moved into two resurrected genera, Erythropitta and Hydrornis.[1] The genus Erythropitta had been introduced in 1854 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte.[2] The type species was subsequently designated as the Papuan pitta (Erythropitta macklotii).[3] The name Erythropitta combines the Ancient Greek word eruthros "red" with the genus name Pitta.[4]
Pittas in this genus have red or crimson coloured underparts, greenish or blueish backs and short tails. They are mostly small in size.[1]
The genus contains the following 13 species:[5]
Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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Erythropitta kochi | Whiskered pitta | Luzon in the Philippines. | |
![]() | Erythropitta erythrogaster | Philippine pitta | Philippines. |
Erythropitta dohertyi | Sula pitta | Sula and Banggai Islands | |
![]() | Erythropitta celebensis | Sulawesi pitta | Sulawesi, Manterawu, and Togian Islands |
Erythropitta rubrinucha | South Moluccan pitta | Indonesia on Buru and Seram. | |
![]() | Erythropitta rufiventris | North Moluccan pitta | northern Moluccas |
Erythropitta meeki | Louisiade pitta | Louisiade Archipelago in Papua New Guinea | |
Erythropitta novaehibernicae | Bismarck pitta | New Ireland Province in Papua New Guinea | |
![]() | Erythropitta macklotii | Papuan pitta | Aru Islands, New Guinea |
![]() | Erythropitta arquata | Blue-banded pitta | Borneo |
![]() | Erythropitta granatina | Garnet pitta | Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, and Thailand. |
![]() | Erythropitta venusta | Graceful pitta | Sumatra, Indonesia |
![]() | Erythropitta ussheri | Black-crowned pitta | Sabah in northern Borneo |
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