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sittella
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sittella
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a variant spelling of sitella


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The family was conceived much more broadly (Mayr and Amadon 1951) to contain other, superficially similar groups, such as Daphoenositta (the sittellas of New Guinea and Australia), now known to have converged on a similar feeding niche and morphology from different ancestry (Sibley and Ahlquist 1990).
 
 
 
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