Species profile
Parus superciliosus
Parus superciliosus
Quick answer
The position of the Whitebrowed Tit, specially emphasized by Bianchi (1902) with the name “ Poeciloides ”, was also discussed by Kleinschmidt (1911) with no decision regarding the relationships to P. gambeli. To assume conspecificity of these two (Eck 1980) went too far. Knowledge about this group has recently been enhanced by Martens and Gebauer (1993). According to moleculargenetic findings the sympatric species P. gambeli and P. atricapillus are more closely related to one another than either is to P. superciliosus (Gill et al., 2005), a situation reminiscent of a “ triangular relationships ” (see page 7).
- Scientific name
- Parus superciliosus
- Family
- Paridae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Parus
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Related species in Paridae
- Acacia Tit (Parus thruppi)
- African Blue Tit (Cyanistes teneriffae)
- Ashy Tit (Parus cinerascens)
- Azure Tit (Cyanistes cyanus)
- Azure Tit x Blue Tit (Cyanistes cyanus x caeruleus)
- Black-bibbed Tit (Poecile hypermelaenus)
- Black-capped/mountain Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus)
- Black-crested Titmouse (Baeolophus atricristatus)