Coracornis
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| Genus: | Coracornis Riley, 1918
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Coracornis is a bird genus in the family Pachycephalidae. It was assumed to be monotypic, containing only the maroon-backed whistler (Coracornis raveni),[1] but has since been enlarged to include the Sangihe shrikethrush (Coracornis sanghirensis), found to be related to the former species.[2]
References
- ^ Norman, Janette A.; Ericson, Per G.P.; Jønsson, Knud A.; Fjeldså, Jon; Christidis, Les (2009). "A multi-gene phylogeny reveals novel relationships for aberrant genera of Australo-Papuan core Corvoidea and polyphyly of the Pachycephalidae and Psophodidae (Aves: Passeriformes)" (PDF). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 52 (2): 488–497. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2009.03.019. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
- ^ Jønsson, Knud A. ; Bowie, Rauri C. K. ; Moyle, Robert G. ; Christidis, Les ; Norman, Janette A. ; Benz, Brett W. ; Fjeldså, Jon (2010). "Historical biogeography of an Indo-Pacific passerine bird family (Pachycephalidae): different colonization patterns in the Indonesian and Melanesian archipelagos". Journal of Biogeography. 37 (2): 245–57. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2009.02220.x.
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