Large Cuckooshrike (Coracina macei) W IMG 4395

''Coracina'' is a large

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of birds in the cuckooshrike family Campephagidae. The genus was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot in 1816. The

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was subsequently designated as the

white-bellied cuckooshrike The white-bellied cuckooshrike (''Coracina papuensis'') is a species of bird in the family Campephagidae. It is found in Australia, the Moluccas, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. Description This species exhibits a short black mask exten ...

(''Coracina papuensis'') by the German ornithologist

Jean Cabanis Jean Louis Cabanis (8 March 1816 – 20 February 1906) was a German ornithologist. Cabanis was born in Berlin to an old Huguenot family who had moved from France. Little is known of his early life. He studied at the University of Berlin from 18 ...

in 1850–1851. The name ''Coracina'' is from the

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meaning "little raven", a diminutive of ''korax'' meaning "raven". The genus formerly included many more species. It was split based on the results of a

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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''. The genus contains the following 22 species: * Stout-billed cuckooshrike (''Coracina caeruleogrisea'') * Hooded cuckooshrike (''Coracina longicauda'') *

Cerulean cuckooshrike The cerulean cuckooshrike (''Coracina temminckii'') is a species of bird in the family Campephagidae. It is endemic to the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or ...

(''Coracina temminckii'') * Pied cuckooshrike (''Coracina bicolor'') *

Ground cuckooshrike The ground cuckoo-shrike (''Coracina maxima'') is an uncommon bird species endemic to Australia, occurring mainly in open woodland and arid grasslands throughout inland Australia, but also occasionally in areas on the east coast. Taxonomy ''Cor ...

(''Coracina maxima'') *

Barred cuckooshrike The barred cuckooshrike (''Coracina lineata''), also called the yellow-eyed cuckooshrike, is a species of bird in the family Campephagidae. It is found in eastern Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Solomon Islands. Taxonomy Subspeci ...

(''Coracina lineata'') *

Black-faced cuckooshrike The black-faced cuckooshrike (''Coracina novaehollandiae'') is a common omnivorous passerine bird native to Australia and southern New Guinea. It has a protected status in Australia, under the National Parks and Wildlife Act, 1974. They are wid ...

(''Coracina novaehollandiae'') * Boyer's cuckooshrike (''Coracina boyeri'') * Buru cuckooshrike (''Coracina fortis'') * Wallacean cuckooshrike (''Coracina personata'') *

North Melanesian cuckooshrike The north Melanesian cuckooshrike (''Coracina welchmani'') is a species of bird in the cuckooshrike family. It is endemic to the Solomon Islands archipelago. It is considered by some ornithologists to be a subspecies of '' Coracina caledonica''. ...

(''Coracina welchmani'') * South Melanesian cuckooshrike (''Coracina caledonica'') *

Bar-bellied cuckooshrike The bar-bellied cuckooshrike (''Coracina striata'') is a species of bird in the family Campephagidae. It is found in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines, and its natural habitats include mangrove forest, dry forest, swamp forest, ...

(''Coracina striata'') * Javan cuckooshrike (''Coracina javensis'') *

Large cuckooshrike The large cuckooshrike (''Coracina macei'') is a species of cuckooshrike found in the Indian Subcontinent and depending on the taxonomic treatment used, Southeast Asia. The species has had a long and varied taxonomic treatment, being closely rela ...

(''Coracina macei'') *

Andaman cuckooshrike The Andaman cuckooshrike (''Coracina dobsoni'') is a species of bird in the family Campephagidae. It is endemic to the Andaman Islands. It was formerly considered a subspecies of the bar-bellied cuckooshrike. References *Rasmussen, P.C., and J ...

(''Coracina dobsoni'') * Slaty cuckooshrike (''Coracina schistacea'') * White-rumped cuckooshrike (''Coracina leucopygia'') *

Sunda cuckooshrike The Sunda cuckooshrike (''Coracina larvata'') is a species of bird in the family Campephagidae. It is found in Indonesia and Malaysia, where it occurs on Borneo, Sumatra and Java. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane fore ...

(''Coracina larvata'') *

White-bellied cuckooshrike The white-bellied cuckooshrike (''Coracina papuensis'') is a species of bird in the family Campephagidae. It is found in Australia, the Moluccas, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. Description This species exhibits a short black mask exten ...

(''Coracina papuensis'') * Manus cuckooshrike (''Coracina ingens'') * Moluccan cuckooshrike (''Coracina atriceps'')

References

Bird genera Taxa named by Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Campephagidae-stub