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Parus
Sign in to saveParus is a genus of Old World birds in the tit family Paridae. It was formerly a large genus containing most of the 50 odd species in the family Paridae. The genus was split into several resurrected genera following the publication of a detailed molecular phylogenetic analysis in 2013. The genus name, Parus, is the Latin word for "tit".
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Parus is a genus of birds within the family Paridae. It belongs to the order Passeriformes, class Aves, and phylum Chordata, under the kingdom Animalia. The taxon was described by Linnaeus in 1758 and holds an accepted status in biological classification.
Records for this genus are held by institutions including FMNH, CM, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, and USNM. These records are associated with the United States. The genus has 479 records and 79 media items in one database, while another source lists an occurrence count of 14,937,968.
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Parus
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderPasseriformes
- FamilyParidae
日本で見られるカラ類の主な種 シジュウカラ、ゴジュウカラ、ヒガラ、コガラ、ヤマガラ カラ類（カラるい）とは、シジュウカラを始めとする山野の小鳥類の総称。 シジュウカラ科のシジュウカラ、ヤマガラ、ヒガラ、コガラ、などをいう。ゴジュウカラ、エナガを含めることもある。大きさはほぼスズメ大で、梢の間を活発に動き回る。コガラやヒガラなどは山地で見られ、シジュウカラは市街地でも見られる。
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 479
- With media
- 79
- Family
- Paridae
- Collections
- FMNH, CM, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, USNM
- Recorded in
- United States
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Parus is a genus of Old World birds in the tit family Paridae. It was formerly a large genus containing most of the 50 odd species in the family Paridae. The genus was split into several resurrected genera following the publication of a detailed molecular phylogenetic analysis in 2013. The genus name, Parus, is the Latin word for "tit".
==Taxonomy== The genus Parus was introduced in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae. The genus name is Latin for "tit". Of the 12 species included in the genus by Linnaeus, the type species was designated as the great tit (Parus major) by George Robert Gray in 1840.
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