''Campephaga'' is a genus of
bird
Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweigh ...
in the cuckoo-shrike family
Campephagidae.
The genus contains four species:
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Black cuckooshrike
The black cuckooshrike (''Campephaga flava'') is a species of bird in the cuckooshrike family Campephagidae. The species is closely related to Petit's cuckooshrike and the red-shouldered cuckooshrike, and forms a Species complex, superspecies wit ...
(''Campephaga flava'')
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Petit's cuckooshrike (''Campephaga petiti'')
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Red-shouldered cuckooshrike (''Campephaga phoenicea'')
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Purple-throated cuckooshrike (''Campephaga quiscalina'')
The genus name is combination of two
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Greece
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
words: ', meaning "caterpillar" and ''-'' (from ) meaning "-eating".
References
Bird genera
Taxa named by Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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