Parus | |
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Great tit Parus major | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Paridae |
Genus: | Parus Linnaeus, 1758 |
Type species | |
Parus major (great tit) Linnaeus, 1758
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Species | |
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Distribution of the species in the genus Parus. Parus bokharensis is now treated as a subspecies of P. major |
Parus is a genus of Old World birds in the tit family. 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.[1][2] The genus name, Parus, is the Latin word for "tit".