Biology:Blue cuckooshrike

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Short description: Species of bird

Blue cuckooshrike
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Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Campephagidae
Genus: Cyanograucalus
Hartlaub, 1861
Species:
C. azureus
Binomial name
Cyanograucalus azureus
(Cassin, 1852)
Synonyms
  • Coracina azurea

The blue cuckooshrike (Cyanograucalus azureus) is a species of bird in the Cuckooshrike family, Campephagidae. It is found from Sierra Leone and Liberia to eastern and south-western Democratic Republic of Congo. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

This species was formerly placed in the genus Coracina. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2010 found the genus Coracina was non-monophyletic. In the resulting reorganization to create monophyletic genera, the blue cuckooshrike is the only species placed in the resurrected genus Cyanograucalus.[2][3]

References

  1. BirdLife International (2016). "Cyanograucalus azureus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22706548A94076351. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22706548A94076351.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22706548/94076351. Retrieved 12 November 2021. 
  2. Jønsson, K.A.; Bowie, R.C.K.; Nylander, J.A.A.; Christidis, L.; Norman, J.A.; Fjeldså, J. (2010). "Biogeographical history of cuckoo-shrikes (Aves: Passeriformes): transoceanic colonization of Africa from Australo-Papua". Journal of Biogeography 37 (9): 1767–1781. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02328.x. 
  3. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds (2019). "Bristlehead, butcherbirds, woodswallows, ioras, cuckooshrikes, Shriketit". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/butcherbirds/. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q3320965 entry