Cettia
| Cettia | |
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| Cetti's warbler (Cettia cetti) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Cettiidae |
| Genus: | Cettia Bonaparte, 1834 |
| Type species | |
| Sylvia cetti[1] Marmora, 1820
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| Species | |
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4, but see text | |
Cettia
The genus gets its name from the Cetti's warbler, itself named after the 18th century Italian zoologist Francesco Cetti.[2]
The cettiid or typical bush warblers share the lifestyle and related
These are quite terrestrial birds, which live in densely vegetated
Cettid bush warblers tend towards rich or greyish browns above and buffish or light grey tones below. They have little patterning apart from the ubiquitous supercilium. Altogether, they appear much like the plainer species among Acrocephalus marsh warblers in coloration. Megalurid bush warblers tend to be somewhat slimmer and have a very long and pointed tail, but are otherwise very similar.
Taxonomy
The genus Cettia was erected in 1834 by the French ornithologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte to accommodate Cetti's warbler (Cettia cetti).[3] The specific epithet cetti had been chosen in 1820 by Coenraad Jacob Temminck to commemorate the Italian zoologist Francesco Cetti.[4]
This genus and the genus Horornis have been split. Cetti's warbler (C. cetti), the type species, seems close to the genus Tesia from Southeast Asia and neighboring regions. Species in the genus Horornis, such as the famous uguisu (鶯, Japanese bush warbler, H. diphone) and the brown-flanked bush warbler (H. fortipes) belong to a group that might include the aberrant broad-billed warbler (Tickellia hodgsoni). This latter species differs wildly in its gaudy colors but in habitus is a typical "bush warbler".[5][6]
| Image | Common Name | Scientific name | Distribution |
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| Chestnut-crowned bush warbler | Cettia major | South Asia | |
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Chestnut-headed tesia | Cettia castaneocoronata | Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. |
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Grey-sided bush warbler | Cettia brunnifrons | northern Pakistan to central China. |
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Cetti's warbler | Cettia cetti | southern and central Europe, northwest Africa and the east Palearctic as far as Afghanistan and northwest Pakistan. |
References
- ^ "Scotocercidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
- ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ Bonaparte, Charles Lucien (1834). Iconografia della fauna italica per le quattro classi degli animali vertebrati (in Italian). Vol. 1. Roma: Tip. Salviucci. Fascicle IX text, Plate 29.
- ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- PMID 16054402.
- PMID 16182572.