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Vanga shrikes (Vangidae) Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Suborder: Passeri (
Oscines) Family: Vangidae Thumbnail description Small to medium-sized.
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Helmet-Shrike page
... are closely related to Bush-Shrikes (Malaconotidae), Vangas (Vangidae), ...
Thus helmet-shrikes, vangas, and shrike-flycatchers are all on the same
evolutionary branch. One approach would be to lump them all in a single family.
... in works rather like the tried-and-true "Biological Species Concept. ...
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Animal Classification: Vanga Shrikes to Vocal Sac-Brooding Frogs ...
... animal family, its taxonomy , physical characteristics, biological
background, ... On this page: Vanga Shrikes (Vangidae) to Vocal Sac-Brooding
Frogs ...
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True Shrikes
... Helmet-Shrikes (Prionopidae), Vangas (Vangidae), and the Batises & Wattle-
eyes (Platysteiridae). ... An earlier book focused just on this family: Lefranc,
Norbert and Tim ... Indeed, it appears that the flycatcher-shrikes are vangas,
... in works rather like the tried-and-true "Biological Species Concept. ...
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Reconsideration of the phylogenetic relationships of the enigmatic ...
Sharpe (1903) retained Pityriasis in the true shrikes (Laniidae) along with ...
family next to the helmet-shrikes (Prionopidae) and vangas (Vangidae). ..... of
the Royal Society of London Series B—Biological Sciences 269 (2002), pp. ...
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Bush-Shrike family
Bush-shrikes are closely related to Helmet-Shrikes (Prionopidae), Vangas (
Vangidae), and the Batises & Wattle-eyes (Platysteiridae). ...
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Extreme Endemic Radiation of the Malagasy Vangas (Aves: Passeriformes)
tial support for the validity of the family Vangidae, al- though we could not
completely negate ... dae (starlings), Laniidae (shrikes) or other monotypic
.... Lack D (1947) Darwin's Finches, an Essey on the General Biological ...
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Comparative foraging ecology of Madagascar vangids (Vangidae)
The endemic family Vangidae (or, more recently, as mem- bers of Vangini. ...
shrikes (Prionopidae) of Africa (Benson 1984. 1985). Although all species of
vangas subsist mainly on insects .... Blue Vanga may have preferred higher parts
at Perinet sim- ..... Darwin's Finches, an Essay of the General Biological ...
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Birds species on the Masoala Peninsula, Madagascar
Species, Common name, Malagasy local name, Family, Order ... Cyanolanius
madagascarinus, Blue vanga, bolokibe, Vangidae ... Pseudobias wardi, Ward's
shrike-flycatcher, sohihy mangavola ... The unrest and confusion that usually
accompanies such a coup brought disaster on many of Madagascar's biological
treasures. ...
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Phylogenetic relationships of the African bush-shrikes and helmet ...
The family Vangidae (15 genera and 22 species sensu Howard and Moore, 2003),
..... related to the vangas (Cyanolanius and Pseudobias, Vangidae) and
flycatcher-shrikes (Bias ..... Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (
2000), pp. ...
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