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Tit Genera

Tit genera are the genera of the family Paridae, the chickadees, tits and titmice. Animal Diversity Web counts 59 species divided into nine genera, whose extant species diverged from their ancestral lineage 15.1 million years ago, and notes that all the birds in the family are very vocal. GBIF keeps ten ranked genera, led by Parus with about 122 descendant taxa, Poecile with about 108, Periparus with about 51, Cyanistes with about 34, Baeolophus with about 22 and Lophophanes with about 15, followed by Melanochlora, Sylviparus and Pseudopodoces.

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Animal Diversity Web: Paridae
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The family includes 59 species, divided into nine genera.
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GBIF Secretariat: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, children of Paridae
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  • Children of Paridae
    "canonicalName":"Poecile","vernacularName":"Tits and chickadees","authorship":"Kaup, 1829","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Skizz. Entwick.-Gesch. Europ. Thierw. p. 114","numDescendants":108
  • Children of Paridae: Parus
    "canonicalName":"Parus","vernacularName":"tit","authorship":"Linnaeus, 1758","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ","numDescendants":122
  • Children of Paridae: Periparus
    "canonicalName":"Periparus","vernacularName":"Tufted and Yellow-bellied Tits","authorship":"Selys-Longchamps, 1884","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Bull. Soc. Zool. France 9 p. 43, 59","numDescendants":51
  • Children of Paridae: Cyanistes
    "canonicalName":"Cyanistes","vernacularName":"Blue and Azure Tits","authorship":"Kaup, 1829","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Skizz. Entwick.-Gesch. Europ. Thierw. p. 99","numDescendants":34
  • Children of Paridae: Baeolophus
    "canonicalName":"Baeolophus","vernacularName":"Titmice","authorship":"Cabanis, 1850","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Mus. Heineanum, 1, 1850","numDescendants":22
  • Children of Paridae: Lophophanes
    "canonicalName":"Lophophanes","vernacularName":"Crested Tits","authorship":"Kaup, 1829","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Skizz. Entwick.-Gesch. Europ. Thierw. p. 92","numDescendants":15
  • Children of Paridae: Melanochlora
    "canonicalName":"Melanochlora","authorship":"Lesson, 1839","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Rev. Zool. (Soc. Cuv.), 2","numDescendants":6
  • Children of Paridae: Sylviparus
    "canonicalName":"Sylviparus","authorship":"Burton, 1836","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 3","numDescendants":5
  • Children of Paridae: Pseudopodoces
    "canonicalName":"Pseudopodoces","authorship":"Zarudny & Loudon, 1902","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Orn. MonatsBer., 10","numDescendants":2
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Wikipedia: Parus
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Parus is a genus of Old World birds in the tit family Paridae.
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Wikipedia: Cyanistes
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Cyanistes is a genus of birds in the tit family Paridae.
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