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Neomixis
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Neomixis is a genus of small forest birds that are endemic to Madagascar.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassAves
  4. OrderPasseriformes
  5. FamilyCisticolidae
Observations recorded18,535

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
5
With media
1
Family
Cisticolidae
Collections
CLO, MNHN
Recorded in
Madagascar

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Neomixis tenella 1868.jpg
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Neomixis
taxon rank
genus
taxon name
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Category:Neomixis
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Encyclopedic overview

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Neomixis is a genus of small forest birds that are endemic to Madagascar.

The genus was introduced by the English zoologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe in 1881. The type species is the stripe-throated jery (Neomixis striatigula). The genus was formerly placed in the Old World babbler family but is now considered to belong to the family Cisticolidae. ==Species== The genus includes three species: {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Scientific name !! Common name !! Distribution |- |120px || Neomixis striatigula || Stripe-throated jery|| eastern Madagascar |- |120px || Neomixis tenella || Common jery|| Madagascar |- |120px || Neomixis viridis || Green jery|| eastern Madagascar |- |}

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Neomixis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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