| Turdoides | |
|---|---|
.jpg) | |
| Brown babbler (Turdoides plebejus) | |
Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Leiothrichidae |
| Genus: | Turdoides Cretzschmar, 1826 |
| Type species | |
| Turdoides leucocephala (white-headed babbler) Cretzschmar, 1826 | |
| Species | |
See list | |
Turdoides is agenus ofpasserine birds in the laughingthrush familyLeiothrichidae. The species are distributed acrossAfrica and southernAsia and are typically fairly large, long-tailed birds which forage in noisy groups. The majority of species have drab brown or grey-brown plumage. Several species that were included inTurdoides in the past have been reassigned toArgya following a 2018 study that found multiple clades.[1]
ThegenusTurdoides was introduced in 1826 by the German physicianPhilipp Jakob Cretzschmar specifically for thewhite-headed babbler.[2] The name combines the thrush genusTurdus with theAncient Greek-oidēs meaning "resembling".[3]
The genus contains the following 19 species:[4]
| Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Turdoides nipalensis | Spiny babbler | Nepal |
| - | Turdoides atripennis | Capuchin babbler | African tropical rainforest |
| - | Turdoides gilberti | White-throated mountain babbler | Cameroonian Highlands forests |
| - | Turdoides chapini | Chapin's babbler | western foothills of Albertine Rift montane forests |
| - | Turdoides rufocinctus | Red-collared babbler | Albertine Rift montane forests |
 | Turdoides plebejus | Brown babbler | northern sub-Saharan Africa |
| - | Turdoides leucopygia | White-rumped babbler | Horn of Africa |
.jpg) | Turdoides hindei | Hinde's babbler | Kenya |
_(1).jpg) | Turdoides squamulata | Scaly babbler | riverine and coastal Horn of Africa : |
 | Turdoides jardineii | Arrow-marked babbler | central/southern sub-Saharan Africa |
 | Turdoides gymnogenys | Bare-cheeked babbler | western Angola and northern Namibia |
| - | Turdoides leucocephala | White-headed babbler | eastern Sudan, western Ethiopia and Eritrea |
.jpg) | Turdoides reinwardtii | Blackcap babbler | West Africa to southern CAF |
| - | Turdoides tenbrosa | Dusky babbler | western, eastern and southern South Sudan and adjacent areas |
 | Turdoides bicolor | Southern pied babbler | Kalahari Basin |
| - | Turdoides hartlaubii | Hartlaub's babbler | central-southern sub-Saharan Africa |
 | Turdoides sharpei | Black-lored babbler | Lake Victoria basin |
 | Turdoides melanops | Black-faced babbler | southern Angola, northern Namibia and Botswana |
 | Turdoides hypoleuca | Northern pied babbler | Kenya and Tanzania |
| National | |
|---|---|
| Other | |
