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== Taxonomy and systematics == [[File:Coua caerulea (Blauer Seidenkuckuck - Blue Coua) - Weltvogelpark Walsrode 2013-01.jpg|thumb|right|[[Blue coua]] (''Coua caerulea'')]] [[File:Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus) (5822528612).jpg|thumb|right|[[Yellow-billed cuckoo]] (''Coccyzus americanus'')]] [[File:NeomorphusSalviniSmit.jpg|thumb|right|[[Rufous-vented ground cuckoo]] (''Neomorphus geoffroyi'')]] [[File:Centropus superciliosus -Tanzania-8.jpg|thumb|right|[[White-browed coucal]] (''Centropus superciliosus'')]] For the living members of each genus, see the article [[List of cuckoo species]]. The family Cuculidae contains 150 species which are divided into 33 genera. These numbers include two species that have become extinct in historical times: the [[snail-eating coua]] from Madagascar and the [[Saint Helena cuckoo]] which is placed in its own genus ''[[Nannococcyx]]''.<ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela Rasmussen | date=January 2022 | title=Turacos, bustards, cuckoos, mesites, sandgrouse | work=IOC World Bird List Version 12.1 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/new/bow/turacos/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=9 May 2022}}</ref> * '''Subfamily [[Crotophaginae]]''' – New World group-living cuckoos ** Genus ''[[Guira cuckoo|Guira]]'' – guira cuckoo ** Genus ''[[ani (bird)|Crotophaga]]'' – true anis (3 species) * '''Subfamily [[Neomorphinae]]''' – New World ground cuckoos ** Genus ''[[Striped cuckoo|Tapera]]'' – striped cuckoo ** Genus ''[[Dromococcyx]]'' (2 species) ** Genus ''[[Lesser ground cuckoo|Morococcyx]]'' – lesser ground cuckoo ** Genus ''[[Geococcyx]]'' – roadrunners (2 species) ** Genus ''[[Neomorphus]]'' – Neotropical ground-cuckoos (5 species) * '''Subfamily [[Coucal|Centropodinae]]''' – coucals ** Genus ''[[Coucal|Centropus]]'' – (29 species) * '''Subfamily Couinae''' – Malagasy and South East Asian ground cuckoos ** Genus ''[[Carpococcyx]]'' – Asian ground-cuckoos (3 species) ** Genus ''[[Coua]]'' – couas (9 living species, 1 recently [[extinct]]) * '''Subfamily Cuculinae''' ** Genus ''[[Rhinortha]]'' – Raffles's malkoha ** '''Tribe Phaenicophaeini''' ** Genus ''[[Ceuthmochares]]'' – yellowbills (2 species) ** Genus ''[[Taccocua]]'' – Sirkeer malkoha ** Genus ''[[Zanclostomus]]'' – red-billed malkoha ** Genus ''[[Phaenicophaeus]]'' – typical malkohas (6 species) ** Genus ''[[Dasylophus]]'' – (2 species) ** Genus ''[[Rhamphococcyx]]'' – yellow-billed malkoha ** Genus ''[[Clamator]]'' – (4 species) ** Genus ''[[Coccycua]]'' – formerly in ''Coccyzus'' and ''Piaya'', includes ''Micrococcyx'' (3 species) ** Genus ''[[Piaya]]'' – (2 species) ** Genus ''[[Coccyzus]]'' – includes ''Saurothera'' and ''Hyetornis'' (13 species) ** '''Tribe Cuculini''' – brood-parasitic cuckoos of the Old World ** Genus ''[[Thick-billed cuckoo|Pachycoccyx]]'' – thick-billed cuckoo ** Genus ''[[Dwarf koel|Microdynamis]]'' – dwarf koel ** Genus ''[[Eudynamys]]'' – typical koels (3 species) ** Genus ''[[Channel-billed cuckoo|Scythrops]]'' – channel-billed cuckoo ** Genus ''[[Urodynamis]]'' – Pacific long-tailed cuckoo ** Genus ''[[Chrysococcyx]]'' – bronze cuckoos (13 species) ** Genus ''[[Cacomantis]]'' – (10 species) ** Genus ''[[Surniculus]]'' – drongo-cuckoos (4 species) ** Genus ''[[Cercococcyx]]'' – long-tailed cuckoos (4 species) ** Genus ''[[Hierococcyx]]'' – hawk-cuckoos (8 species) ** Genus ''[[Cuculus]]'' – typical cuckoos (11 species) ** β Genus ''[[Saint Helena cuckoo|Nannococcyx]]'' – [[Saint Helena cuckoo]] ([[Holocene extinction|extinct]]) * '''Fossils''' ** Genus ''[[Dynamopterus]]'' ([[fossil]]: Late [[Eocene]]/[[Rupelian|Early Oligocene]] of [[Caylus, Tarn-et-Garonne]], France) ** Genus ''Cursoricoccyx'' ([[fossil]]: [[Early Miocene]] of Logan County, US) β Neomorphinae? ** Cuculidae gen. et sp. indet. ([[fossil]]: [[Zanclean|Early Pliocene]] of Lee Creek Mine, US)<ref>{{cite book|last=Olson|first=Storrs L.|year=1985|chapter=Section VII.C. Cuculidae|editor-last1=Farner|editor-first1=D.S.|editor-last2=King|editor-first2=J.R.|editor-last3=Parkes|editor-first3=Kenneth C.|title=Avian Biology|volume=8|number=110β111|publisher=Academic Press|location=New York}}</ref> ** Genus ''[[Neococcyx]]'' ([[fossil]]: Early Oligocene of Central North America) ** Genus ''[[Eocuculus]]'' ([[fossil]]: Late Eocene of Teller County, US)<ref>{{ cite report | last1=Chandler | first1=R.M. | date=1999 | chapter=Fossil birds of Florissant, Colorado: with a description of a new genus and species of cuckoo | editor1-last=Santucci | editor1-first=V.L. | editor2-last=McClelland | editor2-first=L. | title=National Park Service Paleontological Research : Technical Report NPS/NRGRD/GRDTR-99/03 | publisher=United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Geological Resource Division | pages=49β53 | url=https://doc.rero.ch/record/31563/files/PAL_E647.pdf#page=57 }}</ref>
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