Melanocichla
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- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Leiothrichidae
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- Black Laughingthrush Melanocichla lugubris, Malaysia 002k.jpg
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- Melanocichla
- taxon name
- Melanocichla
- taxon author citation
- Sharpe, 1883
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxonomic type
- Melanocichla lugubris
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Melanocichla is a genus of birds in the Old World babbler family Timaliidae.
==Taxonomy== The genus Melanocichla was introduced in 1883 by the English ornithologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe to accommodate a single species, the black laughingthrush, which is therefore the type species of the genus. The name combines the Ancient Greek melas meaning "black" with kikhlkikhlē meaning "thrush".
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