Tephrodornis

The woodshrikes are a genus, Tephrodornis, of birds in the family Vangidae.

Tephrodornis
Common woodshrike Tephrodornis pondicerianus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Vangidae
Genus:	Tephrodornis Swainson, 1832
Type species
Lanius virgatus Temminck, 1824

Taxonomy

The genus Tephrodornis was introduced in 1832 by the English naturalist William Swainson with the large woodshrike as the type species.^[1][2] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek tephōdēs meaning "like ashes" or "ash-coloured" with ornis meaning "bird".^[3]

The genus contains four species:^[4]

• Large woodshrike, Tephrodornis virgatus
• Malabar woodshrike, Tephrodornis sylvicola
• Common woodshrike, Tephrodornis pondicerianus
• Sri Lanka woodshrike, Tephrodornis affinis

References

1. Swainson, William John; Richardson, J. (1831). Fauna Boreali-Americana, or, The Zoology of the Northern Parts of British America. Vol. 2: The Birds. London: J. Murray. p. 482. The title page bears the year 1831 but the volume was not published until 1832.
2. Mayr, Ernst; Greenway, James C. Jr, eds. (1960). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 9. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 219.
3. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 381. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
4. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (January 2023). "Batises, bushshrikes, boatbills, vangas (sensu lato)". IOC World Bird List Version 13.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 25 March 2023.