| Turdoides | |
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| Brown babbler (Turdoides plebejus) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Leiothrichidae |
| Genus: | Turdoides Cretzschmar, 1826 |
| Type species | |
| Turdoides leucocephala (white-headed babbler) Cretzschmar, 1826 | |
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Turdoides is a genusofpasserine birds in the laughingthrush family Leiothrichidae. The species are distributed across Africa and southern Asia and are typically fairly large, long-tailed birds which forage in noisy groups. The majority of species have drab brown or grey-brown plumage. Several species that were included in Turdoides in the past have been reassigned to Argya following a 2018 study that found multiple clades.[1]
The genus Turdoides was introduced in 1826 by the German physician Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar specifically for the white-headed babbler.[2] The name combines the thrush genus Turdus with the Ancient Greek -oidēs meaning "resembling".[3]
The genus contains the following 19 species:[4]
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