| Neomixis | |
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| Common jery (Neomixis tenella) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Cisticolidae |
| Genus: | Neomixis Sharpe, 1881 |
| Type species | |
| Neomixis striatigula[1] Sharpe, 1881
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| Native range of Neomixis striatigula | |
Neomixis is a genus of small forest birds that are endemic to Madagascar.
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.
- ^ "Cisticolidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
- ^ Sharpe, Richard Bowdler (1881). "On a new genus of Timeliidae from Madagascar, with remarks on some other genera". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1881: 195–197 [195].