| Garnet robin | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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]
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]
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