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:
  224D2BB7471451A4

Avibase ID:
  avibase-224D2BB7

Short link:
  https://avibase.ca/224D2BB7

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 nagaensis nagaensis: northeastern India (Patkai Range of southeastern Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Cachar Hills of southern Assam and the Khasi Hills of Meghalaya) and western Myanmar (northern Chin Hills)
• Sitta nagaensis montium: southern and eastern China (southeastern Xizang, Sichuan, Yunnan, and far southwestern Guizhou; isolated population in higher mountains of northwestern Fujian), northern Laos, northwestern Vietnam (western Tonkin), far northeastern India (northeastern Arunachal Pradesh), eastern Myanmar (northern Kachin southward to Southern Shan State), and northwestern Thailand
• Sitta nagaensis grisiventris: southwestern Myanmar (Mount Victoria, and probably also other mountains of the central and southern Chin Hills), southern Laos (Bolaven Plateau), and southern Vietnam (Da Lat Plateau southward to M'neun Pantar)
• Sitta cashmirensis: mountains of northeastern Afghanistan to northern Pakistan, northwestern India, and northwestern Nepal
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