| Cyornis | |
|---|---|
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| Blue-throated blue flycatcher (C. rubeculoides) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Muscicapidae |
| Genus: | Cyornis Blyth, 1843 |
| Type species | |
| Phoenicura rubeculoides [1] Vigors, 1831 | |
| Synonyms | |
Rhinomyias Sharpe, 1879 | |
Cyornis is a genus of birds in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae most of which are native to Southeast Asia.
The genus Cyornis was introduced by the English zoologist Edward Blyth in 1843. He listed three species in the genus but did not specify which he considered to be the type species. [2] The type was subsequently designated by George Gray in 1855 as Phoenicura rubeculoides Vigors, 1831, the blue-throated blue flycatcher. [3] [4] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek kuanos meaning "dark-blue" with ornis meaning "bird". [5]
The genus contains the following 32 species: [6]
| Image | Common Name | Scientific Name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Pale blue flycatcher | Cyornis unicolor | Southeast Asia |
 | Chinese blue flycatcher | Cyornis glaucicomans | central China ; winters to the Malay Peninsula |
 | Blue-throated blue flycatcher | Cyornis rubeculoides | Himalayas and western Indochina ; winters to southern Western Ghats and Sri Lanka |
 | Hainan blue flycatcher | Cyornis hainanus | southern China, Hainan and Indochina |
 | Bornean blue flycatcher | Cyornis superbus | Borneo |
 | Malaysian blue flycatcher | Cyornis turcosus | Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo |
 | Palawan blue flycatcher | Cyornis lemprieri | Palawan |
| - | Sunda blue flycatcher | Cyornis caerulatus | Suna blue flycatcher |
| - | Blue-breasted blue flycatcher | Cyornis herioti | Luzon |
| - | Rufous-breasted blue flycatcher | Cyornis camarinensis | Luzon and Catanduanes |
| - | Philippine jungle flycatcher | Cyornis ruficauda | Philippines |
| - | Sulu jungle flycatcher | Cyornis ocularis | Sulu Archipelago |
| - | Crocker jungle flycatcher | Cyornis ruficrissa | montane Borneo |
 | White-bellied blue flycatcher | Cyornis pallidipes | Western Ghats |
 | Brown-chested jungle flycatcher | Cyornis brunneatus | southeast China ; winters to Malay Peninsula |
| - | Nicobar jungle flycatcher | Cyornis nicobaricus | Nicobar Islands |
| - | Grey-chested jungle flycatcher | Cyornis umbratilis | Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo |
 | Large blue flycatcher | Cyornis magnirostris | eastern Himalayas ; winters to Kra Isthmus |
 | Tickell's blue flycatcher | Cyornis tickelliae | India and Sri Lanka |
 | Indochinese blue flycatcher | Cyornis sumatrensis | Indochina |
 | Hill blue flycatcher | Cyornis whitei | Yunnan and Indochina |
 | Mangrove blue flycatcher | Cyornis rufigastra | coastal Malesia |
 | Sulawesi blue flycatcher | Cyornis omissus | Sulawesi |
| - | Kalao blue flycatcher | Cyornis kalaoensis | Kalao, Sulawesi |
| - | Javan blue flycatcher | Cyornis banyumas | Java |
 | Dayak blue flycatcher | Cyornis montanus | Borneo |
 | Meratus blue flycatcher | Cyornis kadayangensis | Meratus Mountains |
 | Pale-chinned blue flycatcher | Cyornis poliogenys | Northeast India and sparsely across east India and Yunnan |
 | Fulvous-chested jungle flycatcher | Cyornis olivaceus | Kra Isthmus, Sumatra, Java, Riau and northeastern Borneo |
| - | Banggai jungle flycatcher | Cyornis pelingensis | Peleng |
| - | Sula jungle flycatcher | Cyornis colonus | Sula Islands |
| - | Rück's blue flycatcher | Cyornis ruckii | northeastern Sumatra |
Seven of the above species, all with "jungle flycatcher" in their English names, were previously placed in the genus Rhinomyias but were moved to Cyornis based on the results of a 2010 molecular phylogenetic study. [7] There are also "jungle flycatchers" in the genus Vauriella . [6]
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