Biology:Cormobates

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Short description: Genus of birds

Cormobates
White-throated Treecreeper kobble may07.jpg
White-throated treecreeper (Cormobates leucophaea)
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Climacteridae
Genus: Cormobates
Mathews, 1922
Type species
Certhia leucophaea[1]
Latham, 1801

Cormobates is a genus of bird in the Australasian treecreeper family. Its scientific name means ‘trunk-creeper’, from the Greek cormos (κορµός, ‘tree trunk’)[2] and bates (βάτης, ‘one who treads’).[3][4]

It contains the following species:

Image Scientific name Common Name Distribution
Cormobates leucophaea -Victoria, Australia-8.jpg Cormobates leucophaea White-throated treecreeper eastern Australia
Cormobates placens Papuan treecreeper New Guinea.


References

  1. "Climacteridae". The Trust for Avian Systematics. https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=117. 
  2. cormo- (3rd ed.), Oxford University Press, September 2005, http://oed.com/search?searchType=dictionary&q=cormo-  (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. βάτης. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project: ‘one that treads or covers’
  4. Jobling, James A. (2010). Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. A & C Black. p. 118. ISBN 978-1-4081-2878-7. "Gr. kormos tree-trunk, log; batēs treader, walker (bainō to tread)." 

Wikidata ☰ Q869123 entry