Coracina | |
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Black-faced cuckooshrike ( Coracina novaehollandiae ) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Campephagidae |
Genus: | Coracina Vieillot, 1816 |
Type species | |
Corvus papuaensis Gmelin, JF, 1788 | |
Species | |
see article. |
Coracina is a large genus of birds in the cuckooshrike family Campephagidae.
The genus was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816. [1] The type species was subsequently designated as the white-bellied cuckooshrike by the German ornithologist Jean Cabanis in 1850–1851. [2] [3] The name Coracina is from the Ancient Greek korakinos meaning "little raven", a diminutive of korax meaning "raven". [4]
The genus formerly included many more species. It was split based on the results of a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2010. A major clade was moved to the resurrected genus Edolisoma and a smaller group of Asian and Indian Ocean species moved to the genus Lalage . [5] [6]
The genus contains the following 28 species: [6]