Classification

Original description

Citation:
  Linnaeus, C 1758

Reference:
   Systema Naturae ed. 10 1 p.115

Protonym:
  Sitta europaea

Type locality:
  Europae, Americae; restricted to Sweden by Hartert, 1905, Vogel pal. Fauna, p. 329.

Link:
  https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10277#page/133/mode/1up

Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
  202CD0A1C27FA184

Avibase ID:
  avibase-202CD0A1

Short link:
  https://avibase.ca/202CD0A1

Taxonomic Serial Number:
  TSN: 563018

Geographic range:

• Sitta europaea europaea: Scandinavia and Russia to Volga and Vyatka basins and Ukraine
• Sitta europaea caesia: Britain to Denmark, Carpathian Mountains, Pyrénées, and Balkan Peninsula
• Sitta europaea hispaniensis (hispaniensis): Iberian Peninsula
• Sitta europaea hispaniensis (atlas): Morocco
• Sitta europaea cisalpina: southern Switzerland (south of the Alps), mainland Italy, Sicily, and western coastal Balkans, southward to southwestern Montenegro
• Sitta europaea levantina: western and southern Türkiye (eastward to Euphrates River) and Levant
• Sitta europaea caucasica: northern and northeastern Türkiye, Caucasus region, and Transcaucasia
• Sitta europaea persica: Zagros Mountains (southwestern Iran)
• Sitta europaea rubiginosa: southeastern Transcaucasia (Talyshskiye and Gory mountains) to northern Iran
• Sitta europaea asiatica: central Russia eastward to the western shore of Lake Baikal, and southward to Kazakhstan and western Mongolia
• Sitta europaea baicalensis: southeastern Siberia, from region south and east of Lake Baikal, eastward to the Sea of Okhotsk and northeastern China
• Sitta europaea takatsukasai: southern Kuril Islands (Iturup and Urup)
• Sitta europaea clara: southern Kuril Islands (Kunashir and Shikotan) and northern Japan (Hokkaido)
• Sitta europaea sakhalinensis: Sakhalin (Russia)
• Sitta europaea albifrons: northeastern Russia (southern Koryak highlands and the Kamchatka Peninsula) and northern Kuril Islands (Paramushir)
• Sitta europaea roseilia: southern Japan (southern Kyushu)
• Sitta europaea amurensis: southeastern Russia to northeastern China, Korea, and Honshu (northern Japan)
• Sitta europaea hondoensis: central and southern Japan (Honshu, Shikoku, and northern Kyushu)
• Sitta europaea bedfordi: Jeju Island (Korea)
• Sitta europaea seorsa: northwestern China (eastern Tien Shan Mountains of northern Xinjiang)
• Sitta europaea sinensis: central and eastern China
• Sitta europaea formosana: Taiwan
• Sitta arctica: north-central Siberia to Anadyr River (eastern Russia)
• Sitta cashmirensis: mountains of northeastern Afghanistan to northern Pakistan, northwestern India, and northwestern Nepal
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