| Cyanoderma | |
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| Rufous-capped babbler (Cyanoderma ruficeps) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Timaliidae |
| Genus: | Cyanoderma Salvadori, 1874 |
| Type species | |
| Timalia erythroptera (chestnut-winged babbler) Blyth, 1842 | |
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Cyanoderma is a genusofpasserine birds in the Old World babbler family Timaliidae. Many of these species were formerly placed in the genus Stachyris
Amolecular phylogenetic study published in 2012 found that the genus Stachyris was paraphyletic. In the subsequent reorganization to create monophyletic genera, the genus Cyanoderma was resurrected to accommodate a group of species formerly assigned to Stachyris.[1][2] The genus Cyanoderma had been introduced in 1874 by the Italian zoologist Tommaso Salvadori with chestnut-winged babbler as the type species.[3][4] The name combines the Ancient Greek kuanos meaning "dark-blue" with derma meaning "skin".[5]
The genus contains the following species:[2]
| Image | Common Name | Scientific name | Distribution |
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Chestnut-winged babbler | Cyanoderma erythropterum | Malay Peninsula, Sumatra |
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Grey-hooded babbler[6] | Cyanoderma bicolor | Borneo |
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Crescent-chested babbler | Cyanoderma melanothorax | Java and Bali |
| Rufous-fronted babbler | Cyanoderma rufifrons | Sikkim, Bhutan Dooars and northeast India | |
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Rufous-capped babbler | Cyanoderma ruficeps | Eastern Himalayas to northern Thailand, Laos, eastern China to Vietnam and Taiwan |
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Black-chinned babbler | Cyanoderma pyrrhops | the Himalayas from the Murree Hills in Pakistan to eastern Nepal |
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Golden babbler | Cyanoderma chrysaeum | the Eastern Himalayas to Southeast Asia |
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Buff-chested babbler | Cyanoderma ambiguum | Eastern Himalayas to south Laos |
Deignan's babbler Cyanoderma rodolphei collected in 1939 at Doi Chiang Dao in Thailand is considered synonymous with the rufous-fronted babbler.[7]
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