Vauriella

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Vauriella
Eyebrowed jungle flycatcher (Vauriella gularis)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Muscicapidae
Subfamily: Saxicolinae
Genus: Vauriella
Wolters, 1980
Type species
Rhinomyias insignis[1]
Ogilvie-Grant, 1895

Vauriella is a

Muscicapidae
that occur in Borneo and the Philippines.

The species were previously placed in the genus Rhinomyias but were moved to Vauriella when a detailed

polyphyletic.[2] The genus Vauriella had been introduced by the German ornithologist Hans Wolters in 1980.[3]

The four species in the genus are:[4]

There are also several species called "jungle flycatcher" in the genus Cyornis.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Muscicapidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
  2. PMID 20656044
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  3. ^ Wolters, H.E. (1980). Die Vogelarten der Erde. Lief 6 (in German). Hamburg: Paul Parey. pp. 401–452.
  4. ^ a b Gill, Frank; Donsker, David (eds.). "Chats, Old World flycatchers". World Bird List Version 6.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 20 May 2016.