Genus of birds
Laticilla is a genus of small passerine birds in the family Pellorneidae. Members of the genus are found in Pakistan, Nepal, India and Bangladesh.
A molecular phylogenetic study of the Cisticolidae published in 2013 found that the rufous-vented grass babbler did not lie within the clade containing the other prinias but instead belonged to the Pellorneidae. To create monophyletic genera, the rufous-vented prinia and the closely related swamp grass babbler were placed in the reintroduced genus "Laticilla" in the Pellorneidae. The genus "Laticilla" had been erected by the English zoologist Edward Blyth in 1845 with the rufous-vented prinia as the type species. The genus replaced "Eurycercus" that Blyth had introduced in 1844 only to subsequently discover that the name was preoccupied. The name "Laticilla" comes from the Latin "latus" for "wide" or "broad" and "cilla" for "tail".
Species.
The genus contains the following species:
References.
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