Ioras | |
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Common iora (Aegithina tiphia) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Superfamily: | Malaconotoidea |
Family: | Aegithinidae G. R. Gray, 1869 |
Genus: | Aegithina Vieillot, 1816 |
Type species | |
Motacilla tiphia[1] Linnaeus, 1758
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Species | |
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The ioras are a small family, Aegithinidae, of four passerine bird species found in south and southeast Asia. The family is composed of a single genus, Aegithina. They were formerly grouped with the leafbirds and fairy-bluebirds, in the family Irenidae.