Sterrhoptilus

Taxobox
name = "Sterrhoptilus"


regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Timaliidae (but see text)
genus = "Sterrhoptilus"
genus_authority = Oberholser, 1918
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision ="Sterrhoptilus capitalis"
"Sterrhoptilus dennistouni"
"Sterrhoptilus nigrocapitata"
"Sterrhoptilus plateni"
"Sterrhoptilus pygmaeus"

"Sterrhoptilus" is a songbird genus recently separated from "Stachyris" and usually placed in the family Timaliidae. Together with other "Old World babblers" of the yuhina group, it is a close relative of the white-eyes however, and like these might arguably be placed in a distinct family Zosteropidae.

It contains the following species:
* Mindanao Pygmy-babbler (or Yuhina), "Sterrhoptilus plateni"
* Visayan Pygmy-babbler (or Yuhina), "Sterrhoptilus pygmaeus"
* Golden-crowned Babbler (or Yuhina), "Sterrhoptilus dennistouni"
* Black-crowned Babbler (or Yuhina), "Sterrhoptilus nigrocapitata"
* Rusty-crowned Babbler (or Yuhina), "Sterrhoptilus capitalis"

References

* Collar, N. J. & Robson, C. 2007. Family Timaliidae (Babblers) Pp. 70 - 291 in; del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. & Christie, D.A. eds. "Handbook of the Birds of the World", Vol. 12. Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.