Grallina

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Grallina
Magpie-Lark male kobble aug06.jpg
Male magpie-lark (Grallina cyanoleuca)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Monarchidae
Genus: Grallina
Vieillot, 1816
Type species
Grallina melanoleuca [1]
Vieillot, 1816
Species

See text

Synonyms
  • Tanypus

Grallina is a genus of passerine bird native to Australia and New Guinea. It is a member of a group of birds termed monarch flycatchers.

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Taxonomy

Higher taxonomy

Long thought to be a member of the mudnest builder family Corcoracidae, the magpie-lark and torrent lark have been reclassified in the family Monarchidae (the monarch flycatchers). The two make up a lineage that split off early from other monarchs and has no close relatives within the family. [2]

The monarch flycatchers are considered either as a subfamily Monarchinae, together with the fantails as part of the drongo family Dicruridae, [3] or as a family Monarchidae in its own right. [4] More broadly, they belong to the Corvida parvorder comprising many tropical and Australian passerines including pardalotes, fairy-wrens and honeyeaters as well as crows. [5]

Species

Two species are recognized: [6]

ImageScientific nameCommon nameDistribution
Male magpie lark in suburban garden.jpg Grallina cyanoleuca Magpie-lark Australia, Timor, and southern New Guinea
Grallina bruijni - The Birds of New Guinea (cropped).jpg Grallina bruijnii Torrent-lark New Guinea

References

  1. ↑ "Monarchidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
  2. ↑ Andersen, M.J.; Hosner, P.A.; Filardi, C.E.; Moyle, R.G. (2015). "Phylogeny of the monarch flycatchers reveals extensive paraphyly and novel relationships within a major Australo-Pacific radiation". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 83: 118–36. Bibcode:2015MolPE..83..118A. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.11.010. PMID   25463752.
  3. ↑ Christidis L, Boles WE (1994). The Taxonomy and Species of Birds of Australia and its Territories. Melbourne: RAOU.
  4. ↑ Christidis L, Boles WE (2008). Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Canberra: CSIRO Publishing. p. 174. ISBN   978-0-643-06511-6.
  5. ↑ Sibley, Charles Gald & Ahlquist, Jon Edward (1990): Phylogeny and classification of birds. Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn.
  6. ↑ "IOC World Bird List 6.4". IOC World Bird List Datasets. doi: 10.14344/ioc.ml.6.4 .
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