''Ceblepyris'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

of African passerine birds in the cuckooshrike family Campephagidae. These species were formerly placed in the genus ''

Coracina ''Coracina'' is a large genus of birds in the cuckooshrike family Campephagidae. The genus was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot in 1816. The type species was subsequently designated as the white-bellied cuckoo ...

''. A

molecular phylogenetic Molecular phylogenetics () is the branch of phylogeny that analyzes genetic, hereditary molecular differences, predominantly in DNA sequences, to gain information on an organism's evolutionary relationships. From these analyses, it is possible to ...

study published in 2010 found that ''Coracina'', as then defined, was non-

monophyletic In cladistics for a group of organisms, monophyly is the condition of being a clade—that is, a group of taxa composed only of a common ancestor (or more precisely an ancestral population) and all of its lineal descendants. Monophyletic ...

. In the resulting reorganization to create monophyletic genera these species were moved to the resurrected genus ''Ceblepyris''. The genus contains the following five species: * Madagascar cuckooshrike (''Ceblepyris cinereus'') *

Comoros cuckooshrike The Comoros cuckooshrike (''Ceblepyris cucullatus'') is a species of bird in the family Campephagidae. It is sometimes considered a subspecies of the Madagascar cuckooshrike. It is endemic to the Comoros. Its natural habitats are subtropical or ...

(''Ceblepyris cucullatus'') * Grauer's cuckooshrike (''Ceblepyris graueri'') *

White-breasted cuckooshrike The white-breasted cuckooshrike (''Ceblepyris pectoralis'') is a species of bird in the family Campephagidae. It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iv ...

(''Ceblepyris pectoralis'') *

Grey cuckooshrike The grey cuckooshrike (''Ceblepyris caesius'') is a species of bird in the cuckooshrike family Campephagidae. It is a medium-sized forest bird, with grey to blue-grey plumage and large black eyes. There are two subspecies that occur in forest p ...

(''Ceblepyris caesius'')

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q25403040 Bird genera Taxa named by Georges Cuvier