Garnet robin

Garnet robin
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Petroicidae
Genus:	Eugerygone Finsch, 1901
Species:	E. rubra
Binomial name
Eugerygone rubra (Sharpe, 1879)

The garnet robin (Eugerygone rubra) is a species of bird in the family Petroicidae. It is monotypic within the genus Eugerygone. ^[2] It is found in New Guinea, where its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. ^[1]

Taxonomy

The garnet robin was described by the English ornithologist, Richard Bowdler Sharpe, in 1879, from a specimen collected in the Arfak Mountains on the island of New Guinea. He coined the binomial name Pseudogerygone rubra. ^[3] It was moved to the genus Eugerygone by the German naturalist, Otto Finsch, in 1901. ^[4]

References

1. BirdLife International (2017). "Eugerygone rubra". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2017 e.T22704792A118816706. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T22704792A118816706.en . Retrieved 12 November 2021.
2. "ITIS Report: Eugerygone". Integrated Taxonomic Information System . Retrieved 11 August 2014.
3. Sharpe, Richard Bowdler (1879). "Pseudogerygone rubra". Notes from the Leyden Museum. 1: 29–30.
4. Finsch, Otto (1901). "Zur catalogisirung der ornithologischen abtheilung". Notes from the Leyden Museum (in German). 22 (3): 193–224 [200].