# Tychaedon

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{{Short description|Genus of birds}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Bearded scrub robin (Cercotrichas quadrivirgata).jpg
| image_caption = [Bearded scrub robin](/source/Bearded_scrub_robin) (''Tychaedon quadrivirgata'')
| taxon = Tychaedon
| authority = [Richmond](/source/Charles_Wallace_Richmond), 1917
| type_species = ''Cossypha signata''
| type_species_authority = [Sundevall](/source/Carl_Jakob_Sundevall), 1850
}}

'''''Tychaedon''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of [passerine](/source/passerine) birds in the Old World flycatcher family [Muscicapidae](/source/Muscicapidae) that are found in Sub-Saharan Africa. It contains species that were formerly placed in the genus ''[Cercotrichas](/source/Cercotrichas)''.

==Taxonomy==
The species now placed in this genus were previously placed in the genus ''[Cercotrichas](/source/Cercotrichas)''. A molecular phylogenetic study of the family [Muscicapidae](/source/Muscicapidae) published in 2023 found that ''Cercotrichas'' was [paraphyletic](/source/paraphyletic).<ref>{{Cite journal | last1=Zhao | first1=M. | last2=Gordon Burleigh | first2=J. | last3=Olsson | first3=U. | last4=Alström | first4=P. | last5=Kimball | first5=R.T. | date=2023 | title=A near-complete and time-calibrated phylogeny of the Old World flycatchers, robins and chats (Aves, Muscicapidae) | journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | volume=178 | article-number=107646 | doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107646 | doi-access=free }}</ref> In the rearrangement to create [monophyletic](/source/monophyletic) genera, some species were moved to the resurrected genus ''Tychaedon''.<ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela C. Rasmussen | date=February 2025 | title=Chats, Old World flycatchers | work=IOC World Bird List Version 15.1 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/chats/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=12 March 2025}}</ref> This genus had been erected in 1917 by the American ornithologist [Charles Wallace Richmond](/source/Charles_Wallace_Richmond) as a replacement name for ''Aedonopsis'' that had been introduced by [Richard Bowdler Sharpe](/source/Richard_Bowdler_Sharpe) 1883. The [type species](/source/type_species) is ''Cossypha signata'' [Sundevall](/source/Carl_Jakob_Sundevall), 1850, the [brown scrub robin](/source/brown_scrub_robin).<ref>{{ cite journal | last=Richmond | first=Charles Wallace | author-link=Charles Wallace Richmond | year=1917 | title=Generic names applied to birds during the years 1906 to 1915 inclusive, with additions and corrections to Waterhouse's ''Index Generum Avium'' | journal=Proceedings of the United States National Museum | volume=53 | issue=2221 | pages=565-636 [575, footnote] | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7554053 }}</ref><ref>{{ cite book | last1=Sharpe | first1=R. Bowdler | author2-link=Richard Bowdler Sharpe | year=1883 | title=Catalogue of the Passeriformes or Perching Birds in the Collection of the British Museum. Cichlomorphae: Part IV. Containing the concluding portion of the family Timeliidae (Babbling Thrushes) | series=Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum | volume=7 | location=London | publisher=Trustees of the British Museum | page=68 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8300780 }} </ref> The genus name ''Tychaedon'' combines [Ancient Greek](/source/Ancient_Greek) τυχη/''tukhē'' meaning "chance" or "luck"  with αηδων/''aēdōn'', αηδονος/''aēdonos'' meaning "nightingale" or "songstress".<ref>{{ cite web | last=Jobling | first=James A. | title=Tychaedon | work=The Key to Scientific Names | url=https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/key-to-scientific-names/search?q=Tychaedon | publisher=Cornell Lab of Ornithology | access-date=12 March 2025 }}</ref>

These are African species of open woodland or scrub, that nest in bushes or on the ground.

The genus contains the following five species:<ref name=ioc/>
{| class="wikitable"
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! Image !!  Common name !! Scientific name !! Distribution
|-
| 120px || [Karoo scrub robin](/source/Karoo_scrub_robin) ||''Tychaedon coryphoeus''|| southern Africa
|-
| 120px || [Brown scrub robin](/source/Brown_scrub_robin) ||''Tychaedon signata''|| forests of eastern southern Africa
|-
| 120px || [Forest scrub robin](/source/Forest_scrub_robin) ||''Tychaedon leucosticta''|| sparsely present throughout the African tropical rainforest
|-
| 120px || [Bearded scrub robin](/source/Bearded_scrub_robin) ||''Tychaedon quadrivirgata''|| East Africa
|-
| 120px || [Miombo scrub robin](/source/Miombo_scrub_robin) ||''Tychaedon barbata''|| [miombo](/source/miombo)
|-
|}

==References==
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Category:Tychaedon
Category:Birds of Sub-Saharan Africa
Category:Taxa described in 1917
Category:Bird genera

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