| Ioras | |
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| Common iora (Aegithina tiphia) | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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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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.
- ^ "Aegithinidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.