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Locustellidae
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Locustellidae is a recently recognised family of small insectivorous songbirds ("warblers"), formerly placed in the Old World warbler "wastebin" family. It contains the grasshopper warblers, grassbirds, and the Bradypterus "bush warblers". These birds occur mainly in Eurasia, Africa, and the Australian region. The family name is sometimes given as Megaluridae, but Locustellidae has priority.
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Locustellidae is a family of birds within the order Passeriformes, also known as passerines. It belongs to the superfamily Sylvioidea and is classified under the class Aves, phylum Chordata, and kingdom Animalia. The family is referred to by the common name sumpsangerfamilien.
Records for this taxon are held by several institutions, including ANWC, WAM, QM, and SAMA. Specimens have been documented in Papua New Guinea, Madagascar, Indonesia, and the United Kingdom. The family has 11 associated records, with no media files currently listed.
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Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderPasseriformes
- FamilyLocustellidae
センニュウ科（センニュウか、Locustellidae）は、鳥類スズメ目の科である。オオセッカ科 (Megaluridae) とも。 和名に「センニュウ（仙入）」「オオギセッカ（扇雪加）」「オオセッカ（大雪加）」「ツグミモドキ（鶫擬）」を含む種などが属する。なおセッカは、同上科別科のセッカ科である。
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 11
- Family
- Locustellidae
- Collections
- ANWC, WAM, QM, SAMA
- Recorded in
- Papua New Guinea, Madagascar, Indonesia, United Kingdom
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Encyclopedic overview
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Locustellidae is a recently recognised family of small insectivorous songbirds ("warblers"), formerly placed in the Old World warbler "wastebin" family. It contains the grasshopper warblers, grassbirds, and the Bradypterus "bush warblers". These birds occur mainly in Eurasia, Africa, and the Australian region. The family name is sometimes given as Megaluridae, but Locustellidae has priority.
The name derives from the type genus name Locustella, which is from Latin and is a diminutive of locusta, "grasshopper". Like the English name grasshopper warbler, this refers to the insect-like song of many species of Locustella, most notably the common grasshopper warbler Locustella naevia.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Locustellidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.