| Aegithalos | |
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| Long-tailed tit (A. caudatus) | |
Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Aegithalidae |
| Genus: | Aegithalos Hermann, 1804 |
| Type species | |
| Pipra europaea[1] =Parus caudatus Hermann, 1804 | |
| Species | |
10, see text | |
| Synonyms | |
OritesG.R.Gray, 1841 (preoccupied:non Keyserling & Blasius, 1840:synonym;non Moehring, 1758:suppressed) | |
Aegithalos is agenus ofpasserine birds in thefamilyAegithalidae (bushtits), encompassing majority of thespecies in the family.
The genusAegithalos was introduced in 1804 by the French naturalistJohann Hermann to accommodate a single species, thelong-tailed tit.[2][3] The genus name was a term used byAristotle for some European tits, including thelong-tailed tit.[4]
The genus contains the following nine extantspecies:[5]
| Image | Common name | Scientific name | Distribution |
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_(34979902626).jpg) | Long-tailed tit | Aegithalos caudatus | northern Europe and the Palearctic, into boreal Scandinavia and south into the Mediterranean zone |
 | Silver-throated bushtit | Aegithalos glaucogularis | central and eastern China and south towards Yunnan |
 | White-cheeked bushtit | Aegithalos leucogenys | Afghanistan, Kashmir region, and Pakistan. |
 | Black-throated bushtit | Aegithalos concinnus | foothills of the Himalayas, stretching across northern India through north-eastern Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, northern Myanmar, China, Vietnam, and Taiwan. |
_JEG9985_(cropped).jpg) | White-throated bushtit | Aegithalos niveogularis | India, Nepal, and Pakistan. |
.jpg) | Rufous-fronted bushtit | Aegithalos iouschistos | eastern and central Himalayas in Bhutan, China, India and Nepal |
_(18017149158)_(cropped)_2.jpg) | Black-browed bushtit | Aegithalos bonvaloti | mid-southern China and far northern Burma. |
 | Sooty bushtit | Aegithalos fuliginosus | central China. |
.jpg) | Pygmy bushtit | Aegithalos exilis | Indonesia |
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