Melaniparus
Sign in to saveMelaniparus is a genus of birds in the tit family that are found in sub-Saharan Africa.
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- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderPasseriformes
- FamilyParidae
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Melaniparus is a genus of birds in the tit family that are found in sub-Saharan Africa.
==Taxonomy== The species now assigned to this genus were formerly placed in the speciose genus Parus but were moved to Melaniparus based on a molecular phylogenetic analysis published in 2013 that showed that the members formed a distinct clade. The genus Melaniparus had originally been introduced by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1850. The type species was subsequently designated as the southern black tit (Melaniparus niger). The name of the genus combines the Ancient Greek melas, melanos "black" and the genus Parus introduced by Carl Linnaeus in 1758.
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