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Gracula
Sign in to saveGracula is a genus of mynas, tropical members of the starling family of birds found in southern Asia and introduced to Florida in the United States.
Species
Great-tailed Grackle
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderPasseriformes
- FamilySturnidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 10
- Family
- Sturnidae
- Collections
- CSULB, OMNH, BPBM, NHMUK, MNHN, BOUM
- Recorded in
- United States, Solomon Islands
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- Gracula
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- topic's main category
- Category:Gracula
- Commons gallery
- Gracula indica
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- Taxonomy
- Species
- Former species
- Description
- Vocalisations
- Distribution and habitat
- Behaviour and ecology
- Breeding
- Food and feeding
- References
- External links
Gracula is a genus of mynas, tropical members of the starling family of birds found in southern Asia and introduced to Florida in the United States.
==Taxonomy== The genus Gracula was introduced in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae. The genus name is from Latin graculus, an unknown bird sometimes identified as the western jackdaw. Of the seven species listed by Linnaeus, George Gray designated the common hill myna (Gracula religiosa) as the type species.
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