Papuan white-eye | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Zosteropidae |
Genus: | Zosterops |
Species: | Z. novaeguineae |
Binomial name | |
Zosterops novaeguineae Salvadori, 1878 | |
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