| Crombecs | |
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| Green crombec (Sylvietta virens) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Macrosphenidae |
| Genus: | Sylvietta Lafresnaye, 1839 |
| Type species | |
| Sylvietta brachyura[1] Lafresnaye, 1839
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| Species | |
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9-10, see text | |
Sylvietta, the crombecs, is a genus of African warblers. Formerly placed in the massively paraphyletic family Sylviidae, it is now considered to belong to a newly recognized family found only in Africa, Macrosphenidae.
It contains the following species:
