Coracina
| Coracina | |
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| Black-faced cuckooshrike (Coracina novaehollandiae) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Campephagidae |
| Genus: | Coracina Vieillot, 1816 |
| Species | |
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Coracina is a large genus of bird in the Campephagidae family. A revision of this genus was involved since the group is found to be polyphyletic in relation to other genera within the Campephagidae.[1] It contains the following species:
- Moluccan cuckooshrike (Coracina atriceps)
- Pied cuckooshrike (Coracina bicolor)
- Boyer's cuckooshrike (Coracina boyeri)
- Stout-billed cuckooshrike (Coracina caeruleogrisea)
- South Melanesian cuckooshrike (Coracina caledonica)
- North Melanesian cuckooshrike (Coracina welchmani)
- Buru cuckooshrike (Coracina fortis)
- Javan cuckooshrike (Coracina javensis)
- Sunda cuckooshrike (Coracina larvata)
- White-rumped cuckooshrike (Coracina leucopygia)
- Barred cuckooshrike (Coracina lineata)
- Hooded cuckooshrike (Coracina longicauda)
- Ground cuckooshrike (Coracina maxima)
- Black-faced cuckooshrike (Coracina novaehollandiae)
- White-bellied cuckooshrike (Coracina papuensis)
- Manus cuckooshrike (Coracina ingens)
- Wallacean cuckooshrike (Coracina personata)
- Slaty cuckooshrike (Coracina schistacea)
- Bar-bellied cuckooshrike (Coracina striata)
- Andaman cuckooshrike (Coracina dobsoni)
- Cerulean cuckooshrike (Coracina temminckii)
- Large cuckooshrike (Coracina macei)
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References
- ^ Knud A. Jønsson, Martin Irestedt, Jerome Fuchs, Per G.P. Ericson, Les Christidis, Rauri C.K. Bowie, Janette A. Norman, Eric Pasquet, Jon Fjeldsa (2008) Explosive avian radiations and multi-directional dispersal across Wallacea: Evidence from the Campephagidae and other Crown Corvida (Aves). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 47:221–236
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