Nesoptilotis

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Nesoptilotis
White-eared Honeyeater by Ron Knight.jpg
Nesoptilotis leucotis (white-eared honeyeater)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Meliphagidae
Genus: Nesoptilotis
Mathews, 1913
Type species
Ptilotis flavigula [1]
Gould, 1838

Nesoptilotis is a genus of honeyeaters endemic to Australia and Tasmania. The genus consists of two former members of Lichenostomus , and was created after a molecular phylogenetic analysis published in 2011 showed that the original genus was polyphyletic. [2]

The genus contains two species: [3]

ImageScientific nameCommon NameDistribution
Lichenostomus flavicollis.jpg N. flavicollis Yellow-throated honeyeater Tasmania
White-eared Honeyeater by Ron Knight.jpg N. leucotis White-eared honeyeater southwest, south and east Australia

The name Nesoptilotis was first proposed by the Australian ornithologist Gregory Mathews in 1913. [4] [5] The word is derived from the Greek nēsos island (i.e. Tasmania), ptilon feather and -ōtis eared. [6]

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