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{{Short description|Genus of birds}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Cinclidium leucurum male - Ang Khang.jpg
| image_caption = [[Biology:White-tailed robin|White-tailed robin]] (''Myiomela leucura'')
| taxon = Myiomela
| authority = G.R. Gray, 1846
| type_species = ''[[Biology:White-tailed robin|Muscisylvia leucura]]''<ref name=HM4>{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=183 |title= Muscicapidae |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-07-15}}</ref>
| type_species_authority = Hodgson, 1845
}}

'''''Myiomela''''' is a genus of [[Biology:Bird|bird]] in the family [[Biology:Muscicapidae|Muscicapidae]]. Some members have sometimes been included in the genus ''[[Biology:Cinclidium (bird)|Cinclidium]]'' and the phylogeny has not been resolved completely.<ref>{{cite book| url=https://archive.org/stream/checklistofbirds101964pete#page/80/mode/2up|title=Check-list of birds of the World. Volume 10|author1=Deignan HG |author2=Paynter HG Jr. |author3=Ripley SD |year=1964| publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology|place=Cambridge, Massachusetts|pages=81–82}}</ref><ref>{{ cite journal | last1=Sangster  | first1=G. | last2=Alström | first2=P. | last3=Forsmark | first3=E. | last4=Olsson | first4=U. | year=2010 | title=Multi-locus phylogenetic analysis of Old World chats and flycatchers reveals extensive paraphyly at family, subfamily and genus level (Aves: Muscicapidae) | journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | volume=57 | issue=1 | pages=380–392 | doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2010.07.008 | pmid=20656044}}</ref>

The genus currently includes three species:<ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | title=Chats, Old World flycatchers | work=World Bird List Version 6.2 | url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/chats/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union| access-date=20 May 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Species Updates – IOC World Bird List|url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/new/updates/species-updates/|access-date=2021-01-12|language=en-US}}</ref>

* [[Biology:White-tailed robin|White-tailed robin]] (''Myiomela leucura'')
* [[Biology:Javan blue robin|Javan blue robin]] (''Myiomela diana'')
* [[Biology:Sumatran blue robin|Sumatran blue robin]] (''Myiomela sumatrana'')

Species from southern India that were tentatively placed in this genus are now treated in the genus ''[[Biology:Sholicola|Sholicola]]''.<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1186/s12862-017-0882-6|title=Two new genera of songbirds represent endemic radiations from the Shola Sky Islands of the Western Ghats, India|journal=BMC Evolutionary Biology|volume=17|year=2017|last1=Robin|first1=V.V.|last2=Vishnudas|first2=C. K.|last3=Gupta|first3=Pooja|last4=Rheindt|first4=Frank E.|last5=Hooper|first5=Daniel M.|last6=Ramakrishnan|first6=Uma|last7=Reddy|first7=Sushma|issue=1 |page=31 |pmid=28114902 |pmc=5259981 |doi-access=free }}</ref>

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