''Dasycrotapha'' is a genus of
bird
Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class (biology), class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the Oviparity, laying of Eggshell, hard-shelled eggs, a high Metabolism, metabolic rate, a fou ...
in the family
Zosteropidae
The white-eyes are a family, Zosteropidae, of small passerine birds native to tropical, subtropical and temperate Sub-Saharan Africa, southern and eastern Asia, and Australasia. White-eyes inhabit most tropical islands in the Indian Ocean, the ...
.
It contains the following species:
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Flame-templed babbler (''Dasycrotapha speciosa'')
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Mindanao pygmy babbler (''Dasycrotapha plateni'')
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Visayan pygmy babbler (''Dasycrotapha pygmaea'')
References
Further reading
*Moyle, R. G., C. E. Filardi, C. E. Smith, and J. Diamond. 2009. Explosive Pleistocene diversification and hemispheric expansion of a "great speciator." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 106: 1863–1868.
Bird genera
Zosteropidae
Endemic birds of the Philippines
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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