Rufous-tailed shama

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| name = Rufous-tailed shama

| image = Copsychus pyrropygus 1993 Indonesia stamp.jpg

| status = NT

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn|url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/details/22710012/0 |title=Trichixos pyrropygus |author=BirdLife International |author-link=BirdLife International |year=2012 |access-date=26 November 2013}}

| genus = Copsychus

| species = pyrropygus

| authority = (Lesson, 1839)

| synonyms = * Trichixos pyrropyga Lesson, 1839 [orth. error]

• Copsychus pyrropyga

}}

The rufous-tailed shama (Copsychus pyrropygus) is a species of passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae. It is found in extreme southern Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra, and Borneo, where its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical swamps. It is threatened by habitat loss.

This species was formerly placed in the monotypic genus Trichixos but was moved to Copsychus based on the results of a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2010.{{ cite journal | last1=Sangster | first1=G. | last2=Alström | first2=P. | last3=Forsmark | first3=E. | last4=Olsson | first4=U. | year=2010 | title=Multi-locus phylogenetic analysis of Old World chats and flycatchers reveals extensive paraphyly at family, subfamily and genus level (Aves: Muscicapidae) | journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | volume=57 | issue=1 | pages=380–392 | doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2010.07.008 | pmid=20656044}}{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | title=Chats, Old World flycatchers | work=World Bird List Version 6.2 | url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/chats/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union| access-date=20 May 2016 }}