Coracina

Black-faced cuckooshrike Coracina novaehollandiae, copyright Brett Donald.

Belongs within: Campephagidae.
Contains: Coracina papuensis.

Coracina, cuckooshrikes, is a genus of insectivorous birds, most diverse in insular southeast Asia and Australasia, with predominantly grey plumage and often more or less dark faces.

Coracina Vieillot 1816 CC10 [incl. Ceblepyris Cuvier 1816 B94, Graucalus Cuvier 1816 B94; Ceblepyridae, Graucalidae]
    |--+--C. cinerea JT12
    |  `--+--C. pectoralis BKB15
    |     `--+--C. caesia BKB15
    |        `--C. graueri Neumann 1908 BKB15, L03
    `--+--+--C. caeruleogrisea JT12
       |  |    |--C. c. caeruleogrisea L03
       |  |    `--C. c. adamsoni Mayr & Rand 1936 L03
       |  `--C. longicauda JT12
       `--+--C. temminckii JT12
          `--+--C. lineata (Swainson 1825) BKB15, L03 [=Paragraucalus lineatus L03]
             |    |--C. l. lineata [incl. Paragraucalus lineatus austini Mathews 1916] L03
             |    |--C. l. gracilis Mayr 1931 L03
             |    |--C. l. makirae Mayr 1935 L03
             |    |--C. l. malaitae Mayr 1931 L03
             |    `--C. l. ombriosa (Rothschild & Hartert 1905) [=Graucalus pusillus ombriosus] L03
             `--+--+--C. bicolor BKB15
                |  `--C. maxima (Rüppell 1839) JT12, L03 (see below for synonymy)
                `--+--C. boyeri JT12
                   `--+--C. atriceps BKB15
                      |--C. welchmani BKB15
                      `--+--C. novaehollandiae (Gmelin 1789) BKB15, CC10 (see below for synonymy)
                         |    |--C. n. novaehollandiae [incl. C. melanops tasmanica Mathews 1911] L03
                         |    |--C. n. melanops (Latham 1802) L03 (see below for synonymy)
                         |    `--C. n. subpallida Mathews 1912 L03 [incl. C. gascoynensis Ashby 1930 WS48]
                         `--+--C. ingens (Rothschild & Hartert 1914) BKB15, L03 (see below for synonymy)
                            `--+--*C. papuensis CC10, BKB15
                               `--+--C. caledonica BKB15 [=Graucalus caledonicus S13]
                                  |    |--C. c. caledonica L03
                                  |    |--C. c. bougainvillei (Mathews 1928) [=Artamides welchmani bougainvillei] L03
                                  |    |--C. c. kulambangrae Rothschild & Hartert 1916 L03
                                  |    `--C. c. seiuncta Mayr & Ripley 1941 L03
                                  `--+--+--C. macei JT12 [=Graucalus macei L03]
                                     |  |    |--C. m. macei L03
                                     |  |    `--C. m. larvivorus (Hartert 1910) [=Graucalus macei larvivorus] L03
                                     |  `--C. striata JT12
                                     |       |--C. s. striata L03
                                     |       |--C. s. bungurensis (Hartert 1894) [=Graucalus bungurensis] L03
                                     |       |--C. s. difficilis (Hartert 1895) [=Graucalus sumatrensis difficilis] L03
                                     |       |--C. s. enganensis (Salvadori 1892) [=Graucalus enganensis] L03
                                     |       |--C. s. guillemardi (Salvadori 1886) (see below for synonymy) L03
                                     |       |--C. s. sumatrensis (Müller 1843) (see below for synonymy) L03
                                     |       `--C. s. vordermani (Hartert 1901) [=Graucalus vordermani] L03
                                     `--+--C. schistacea BKB15
                                        `--+--C. larvata BKB15
                                           |    |--C. l. larvata L03
                                           |    `--C. l. normani (Sharpe 1887) [=Graucalus normani] L03
                                           `--C. leucopygia BKB15

Coracina incertae sedis:
  ‘Ceblepyris’ cana S66
  C. fortis JT12
  C. javensis JT12
  ‘Graucalus’ lifuensis S13
  C. melas JT12
    |--C. m. melas L03
    |--C. m. goodsoni (Mathews 1928) [=Edolisoma melan goodsoni] L03
    |--C. m. meeki (Rothschild & Hartert 1903) [=Edoliisoma melas meeki] L03
    |--C. m. tommasonis (Rothschild & Hartert 1903) [=Edoliisoma melas tommasonis] L03
    `--C. m. waigeuense (Stresemann & Paludan 1932) [=Edolisoma melan waigeuense] L03
  C. parvula JT12
  C. personata JT12
    |--C. p. personata L03
    `--C. p. alfrediana (Hartert 1898) [=Graucalus floris alfredianus] L03
  C. schisticeps JT12
    |--C. s. schisticeps L03
    `--C. s. vittatum (Rothschild & Hartert 1914) [=Edolisoma schisticeps vittatum] L03

Coracina ingens (Rothschild & Hartert 1914) BKB15, L03 [=Graucalus papuensis ingens L03, C. papuensis ingens L03]

Coracina maxima (Rüppell 1839) JT12, L03 [=Ceblepyris maxima WS48, Pteropodocys maxima WS48; incl. Pteropodocys maxima neglecta Mathews 1912 L03, P. maxima pallida Mathews 1912 L03]

Coracina novaehollandiae (Gmelin 1789) BKB15, CC10 [=Turdus novaehollandiae CC10; incl. Colluricincla concinna Hutton 1871 CC10, Graucalus concinnus CC10]

Coracina novaehollandiae melanops (Latham 1802) L03 [=Corvus melanops WS48, Graucalus melanops CC10; incl. Coracina novaehollandiae connectens Mathews 1912 L03, Coracina novaehollandiae didimus Mathews 1912 L03, Coracina novaehollandiae kuehni Hartert 1916 L03, Coracina novaehollandiae westralensis Mathews 1912 L03]

Coracina striata guillemardi (Salvadori 1886) [=Graucalus guillemardi, Artamides guillemardi] L03

Coracina striata sumatrensis (Müller 1843) [incl. Graucalus crissalis Salvadori 1894] L03

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[B94] Bock, W. J. 1994. History and nomenclature of avian family-group names. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 222: 1–281.

[BKB15] Burleigh, J. G., R. T. Kimball & E. L. Braun. 2015. Building the avian tree of life using a large-scale, sparse supermatrix. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 84: 53–63.

[CC10] Checklist Committee (OSNZ). 2010. Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand, Norfolk and Macquarie Islands, and the Ross Dependency, Antarctica 4^th ed. Ornithological Society of New Zealand and Te Papa Press: Wellington.

[JT12] Jetz, W., G. H. Thomas, J. B. Joy, K. Hartmann & A. Ø. Mooers. 2012. The global diversity of birds in space and time. Nature 491: 444–448.

[L03] LeCroy, M. 2003. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 5. Passeriformes: Alaudidae, Hirundinidae, Motacillidae, Campephagidae, Pycnonotidae, Irenidae, Laniidae, Vangidae, Bombycillidae, Dulidae, Cinclidae, Troglodytidae, and Mimidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 278: 1–156.

[S13] Sarasin, F. 1913. Die Vögel Neu-Caledoniens und der Loyalty-Inseln. In: Sarasin, F., & J. Roux (eds) Nova Caledonia: Forschungen in Neu-Caledonian und auf den Loyalty-Inseln. A. Zoologie vol. 1 pt 1 pp. 1–78, pls 1–3. C. W. Kreidels Verlag: Wiesbaden.

[S66] Schlegel, H. 1866. Communication from, on mammals and birds collected in Madagascar. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1866: 419–426.

[WS48] Whittell, H. M., & D. L. Serventy. 1948. A systematic list of the birds of Western Australia. Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery of Western Australia, Special Publication 1: 1–126.