Cyanoderma
Cyanoderma is a genus of passerine birds in the Old World babbler family Timaliidae. Many of these species were formerly placed in the genus ''Stachyris''
Taxonomy
A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2012 found that the genus Stachyris was paraphyletic. In the subsequent reorganization to create monophyletic genera, the genus Cyanoderma was resurrected to accommodate a group of species formerly assigned to Stachyris. The genus Cyanoderma had been introduced in 1874 by the Italian zoologist Tommaso Salvadori with chestnut-winged babbler as the type species. The name combines the Ancient Greek kuanos meaning "dark-blue" with derma meaning "skin".Species
The genus contains the following species:| Image | Common name | Scientific name | Distribution |
| Chestnut-winged babbler | Cyanoderma erythropterum | Malay Peninsula, Sumatra | |
| Grey-hooded babbler | Cyanoderma bicolor | Borneo | |
| Crescent-chested babbler | Cyanoderma melanothorax | Java and Bali | |
| Rufous-fronted babbler | Cyanoderma rufifrons | Sikkim, Bhutan Dooars and northeast India | |
| Rufous-capped babbler | Cyanoderma ruficeps | Eastern Himalayas to northern Thailand, Laos, eastern China to Vietnam and Taiwan | |
| Black-chinned babbler | Cyanoderma pyrrhops | the Himalayas from the Murree Hills in Pakistan to eastern Nepal | |
| Golden babbler | Cyanoderma chrysaeum | the Eastern Himalayas to Southeast Asia |
Deignan's babbler Cyanoderma rodolphei collected in 1939 at Doi Chiang Dao in Thailand is considered synonymous with the rufous-fronted babbler.