| Rufous-tailed babbler | |
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| Conservation status | |
 Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Paradoxornithidae |
| Genus: | Moupinia David & Oustalet, 1877 |
| Species: | M. poecilotis |
| Binomial name | |
| Moupinia poecilotis (Verreaux, 1871) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Chrysomma poecilotis | |
The rufous-tailed babbler (Moupinia poecilotis) is a bird species in the family Paradoxornithidae. As with many other species known as "babblers", it was formerly placed in the family Sylviidae. It is endemic to central China.
The genus Moupinia was introduced by the French ornithologists Armand David and Émile Oustalet in 1877.
References
- BirdLife International (2016). "Moupinia poecilotis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22716332A94491213. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22716332A94491213.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- David, Armand; Oustalet, Émile (1877). Les Oiseaux de la Chine (in French). Paris: Masson. p. 219.
- Collar, N. J. & Robson, C. 2007. Family Timaliidae (Babblers) pp. 70 – 291 in; del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. & Christie, D.A. eds. Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 12. Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Moupinia poecilotis | |
| Alcippe poecilotis | |
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