Long-billed Bernieria
| Long-billed Bernieria | |
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| Conservation status | |
 Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Bernieridae |
| Genus: | Bernieria Pucheran, 1855 |
| Species: | B. madagascariensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Bernieria madagascariensis (Gmelin, 1789) | |
| Synonyms | |
Phyllastrephus madagascariensis
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The Long-billed Bernieria (Bernieria madagascariensis), formerly known as Long-billed Greenbul and sometimes as Common Tetraka or Long-billed Tetraka, is a songbird species endemic to Madagascar. It was initially considered a greenbul, and later with the Old World warblers. Recent research indicates it is part of an endemic Malagasy radiation currently known as the Malagasy warblers, which have not received a scientific name yet.
This is at present the only species remaining in the genus Bernieria. Its presumed relatives are not as closely related as was once believed and have been restored to the old genusXanthomixis.
Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
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