''Edolisoma'' is a

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of birds in the cuckooshrike family Campephagidae that are native to the

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region, Australia and New Guinea.

Taxonomy

These species were previously 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 Pierre Vieillot in 1816. The type species was subsequently designated as the white-bellied cuckooshrik ...

''. They were moved to the resurrected genus ''Edolisoma'' based on the results of a

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study published in 2010. The genus ''Edolisoma'' was introduced in 1853 by the French zoologist

Jacques Pucheran Jacques Pucheran (2 June 1817 – 13 January 1895) was a French zoologist born in Clairac. He was a grandnephew to physiologist Étienne Serres (1786-1868). Pucheran accompanied the expedition on the ''Astrolabe'' between 1837 and 1840, under th ...

with the

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as ''Campephaga marescotii''

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, 1846. This is now considered to be a

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of ''Lanius melas'' Lesson, 1828, the black cicadabird. The name of the genus is derived from the genus ''Edolius'' that had been introduced by the French naturalist

Georges Cuvier Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, baron Cuvier (23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier (; ), was a French natural history, naturalist and zoology, zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology". Cuv ...

in 1816.

Species

The genus contains the following 31

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: * New Caledonian cuckooshrike, ''Edolisoma anale'' * White-winged cuckooshrike, ''Edolisoma ostentum'' * Blackish cuckooshrike, ''Edolisoma coerulescens'' * Black-bellied cuckooshrike, ''Edolisoma montanum'' * Pale-shouldered cicadabird, ''Edolisoma dohertyi'' * Kai cicadabird, ''Edolisoma dispar'' * Grey-headed cuckooshrike, ''Edolisoma schisticeps'' * Pale cicadabird, ''Edolisoma ceramense'' * Black-bibbed cicadabird, ''Edolisoma mindanense'' * Makira cicadabird, ''Edolisoma salomonis'' * Solomons cicadabird, ''Edolisoma holopolium'' * Malaita cicadabird, ''Edolisoma tricolor'' (split from ''E. holopolium'') * Sulawesi cicadabird, ''Edolisoma morio'' * Sangihe cicadabird, ''Edolisoma salvadorii'' (split from ''E. morio'') * Black-shouldered cicadabird, ''Edolisoma incertum'' * Bismarck cicadabird, ''Edolisoma remotum'' (formerly grey-capped cicadabird) * Central Melanesian cicadabird, ''Edolisoma erythropygium'' * Sula cicadabird, ''Edolisoma sula'' * Sahul cicadabird, ''Edolisoma tenuirostre'' (formerly common cicadabird before splits) * Rossel cicadabird, ''Edolisoma rostratum'' * Geelvink cicadabird, ''Edolisoma meyerii'' (split from ''E. tenuirostre'') * Banggai cicadabird, ''Edolisoma pelingi'' (split from ''E. tenuirostre'') * Obi cicadabird, ''Edolisoma obiense'' (split from ''E. tenuirostre'') * North Moluccan cicadabird, ''Edolisoma grayi'' (split from ''E. tenuirostre'') * South Moluccan cicadabird, ''Edolisoma amboinense'' (split from ''E. tenuirostre'') * Timor cicadabird, ''Edolisoma timoriense'' (split from ''E. tenuirostre'') * Admiralty cicadabird, ''Edolisoma admiralitatis'' * Palau cicadabird, ''Edolisoma monacha'' * Yap cicadabird, ''Edolisoma nesiotis'' * Pohnpei cicadabird, ''Edolisoma insperatum'' * Black cicadabird, ''Edolisoma melas''

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