Yuhina | |
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Whiskered Yuhina (Yuhina flavicollis) | |
Scientific Classification | |
Kingdom | Animalia |
Phylum | Chordata |
Class | Aves |
Order | Passeriformes |
Family | Zosteropidae |
Genus | Yuhina |
Yuhina (from yuhin, Nepali for Y. gularis) is a genus of white-eyes which is placed in the Zosteropidae family by recent molecular phylogeny studies or included within the Old World babbler Timaliidae family.
Species[]
It contains the following species:
White-naped Yuhina (Rothschild, 1926) (Yuhina bakeri) Taiwan Yuhina (Ogilvie-Grant, 1906) (Yuhina brunneiceps) Striated Yuhina (Moore, 1854) (Yuhina castaniceps) White-collared Yuhina (Verreaux, 1869) (Yuhina diademata) Chestnut-crested Yuhina (Sharpe, 1887) (Yuhina everetti) Whiskered Yuhina (Hodgson, 1836) (Yuhina flavicollis) Stripe-throated Yuhina (Hodgson, 1836) (Yuhina gularis) Burmese Yuhina (Hume, 1877) (Yuhina humilis) Black-chinned Yuhina (Blyth, 1845) (Yuhina nigrimenta) Rufous-vented Yuhina (Hodgson, 1836) (Yuhina occipitalis) Indochinese Yuhina (Swinhoe, 1870) (Yuhina torqueola)
The white-bellied yuhina (Erpornis zantholeuca) was formerly in this genus.