Grallina
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Specimen Records:4
Specimens with Sequences:2
Specimens with Barcodes:2
Species:2
Species With Barcodes:2
Public Records:1
Public Species:1
Public BINs:1
Grallina:
Grallina is a genus composed of two species of passerine bird native to Australia and New Guinea. It is a member of a group of birds termed monarch flycatchers. This group is considered either as a subfamily Monarchinae, together with the fantails as part of the drongo family Dicruridae,[1] or as a family Monarchidae in its own right.[2] More broadly, they belong to the Corvida parvorder comprising many tropical and Australian passerines including pardalotes, fairy-wrens and honeyeaters as well as crows.[3]
It contains the following species:
- Torrent-lark (Grallina bruijni)
- Magpie-lark (Grallina cyanoleuca)
References[edit]
- ^ Christidis L, Boles WE (1994). The Taxonomy and Species of Birds of Australia and its Territories. Melbourne: RAOU.
- ^ Christidis L, Boles WE (2008). Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Canberra: CSIRO Publishing. p. 174. ISBN 978-0-643-06511-6.
- ^ Sibley, Charles Gald & Ahlquist, Jon Edward (1990): Phylogeny and classification of birds. Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn.
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