Neomixis
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Neomixis is a genus of small forest birds that are endemic to Madagascar.
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Neomixis | |
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Common jery (Neomixis tenella) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Cisticolidae |
Genus: | Neomixis Sharpe, 1881 |
Type species | |
Neomixis striatigula[1] Sharpe, 1881 | |
Native range of Neomixis striatigula |
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The genus was introduced by the English zoologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe in 1881. The type species is the stripe-throated jery (Neomixis striatigula).[2] The genus was formerly placed in the Old World babbler family but is now considered to belong to the family Cisticolidae.