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Neomixis
Sign in to saveNeomixis is a genus of small forest birds that are endemic to Madagascar.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderPasseriformes
- FamilyCisticolidae
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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 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.