Biology:Myzomela

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Short description: Genus of birds


Myzomela
Myzomela jugularis.jpg
Sulphur-breasted myzomela (Myzomela jugularis)
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Meliphagidae
Genus: Myzomela
Vigors & Horsfield, 1827
Type species
Meliphaga cardinalis[1] = Certhia sanguinoleta
Vigors & Horsfield, 1827

Myzomela is a genus of bird in the honeyeater family Meliphagidae. It is the largest genus of honeyeaters, with 40 species, and the most geographically widespread. It ranges from Indonesia to Australia and into the islands of the Pacific Ocean as far as Micronesia and Samoa.

The genus was introduced by the naturalists Nicholas Vigors and Thomas Horsfield in 1827 with the scarlet myzomela as the type species.[2][3]

The genus contains the following 40 species:[4]

References

  1. "Melaphagidae". The Trust for Avian Systematics. https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=119. 
  2. Vigors, Nicholas Aylward; Horsfield, Thomas (1827). "Australian birds in the collection of the Linnean Society; with an attempt at arranging them according to their natural affinities" (in English, Latin). Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 15 (1): 170–334 [316]. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1826.tb00115.x. https://zenodo.org/record/1447478/files/article.pdf.  The title page is dated 1826.
  3. Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed (1986). Check-list of Birds of the World. 12. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 350. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14482467. 
  4. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds (January 2023). "Honeyeaters". IOC World Bird List Version 13,1. International Ornithologists' Union. https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/honeyeaters/. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 "Species Updates – IOC World Bird List" (in en-US). https://www.worldbirdnames.org/new/updates/species-updates/. 

Wikidata ☰ Q1077909 entry