Pitta

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Pittoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Archosauromorpha Cladus: Crurotarsi Cladus: Archosauria Cladus: Avemetatarsalia Cladus: Ornithodira Cladus: Dinosauromorpha Cladus: Dinosauriformes Cladus: Dracohors Cladus: Dinosauria Cladus: Saurischia Cladus: Eusaurischia Subordo: Theropoda Cladus: Neotheropoda Cladus: Averostra Cladus: Tetanurae Cladus: Avetheropoda Cladus: Coelurosauria Cladus: Tyrannoraptora Cladus: Maniraptoromorpha Cladus: Maniraptoriformes Cladus: Maniraptora Cladus: Pennaraptora Cladus: Paraves Cladus: Eumaniraptora Cladus: Avialae Classis/Infraclassis: Aves Cladus: Avebrevicauda Cladus: Pygostylia Cladus: Ornithothoraces Cladus: Ornithuromorpha Cladus: Carinatae Subclassis/Parvclassis: Neornithes Infraclassis/Cohors: Neognathae Cladus: Neoaves Cladus: Telluraves Cladus: Australaves Ordo: Passeriformes Subordo: Tyranni Infraordo: Eurylaimides Superfamilia: Pittoidea

Familia: Pittidae
Genus: Pitta
Species: P. abbotti – P. anerythra – P. angolensis – P. brachyura – P. concinna – P. elegans – P. forsteni – P. iris – P. maxima – P. megarhyncha – P. moluccensis – P. novaeguineae – P. nympha – P. reichenowi – P. rosenbergii – P. sordida – P. steerii – P. superba – P. versicolor – P. vigorsii

Name

Pitta Vieillot, 1816

Typus: Corvus brachyurus Linnaeus, 1766, = Pitta brachyura

Synonymy

Brachyurus Thunberg, 1821 K.Sven.vetensk.akad.handl. p. 369 BHL
Coloburis Cabanis & Heine, 1859 Mus.Hein. 2 p. 3 BHL
Melanopitta Bonaparte, 1854 Ann.Sci.Nat.Zool. (4)1 p. 135 BHL
Cervinipitta Elliot, 1870 Ibis (2)6 p. 413 BHL

References

Primary references

Vieillot, L.P. 1816. Analyse d'une nouvelle ornithologie élémentaire. 70 pp. Paris: Deterville. p. 42 BHL Reference page.

Additional references

Irestedt, M., Ohlson, J.I., Zuccon, D., Källersjö, M. & Ericson, P.G.P. 2006. Nuclear DNA from old collections of avian study skins reveals the evolutionary history of the Old World suboscines (Aves: Passeriformes). Zoologica Scripta 35(6): 567–580. DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2006.00249.x PDF Reference page.
Ericson, P.G.P., Qu, Y., Rasmussen, P.C., Blom, M.P.K., Rheindt, F.E. & Irestedt, M. 2019. Genomic differentiation tracks earth-historic isolation in an Indo-Australasian archipelagic pitta (Pittidae; Aves) complex. BMC Evolutionary Biology 19(1): 151. DOI: 10.1186/s12862-019-1481-5 Reference page.

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Pittas
English: Pitta
español: Pita
français: Brève
hrvatski: Pite
polski: Kurtaczki
português: pita
ไทย: นกแต้วแร้ว
中文: 八色鸫科