Tregellasia

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Tregellasia
Pale-yellow Robin Maiala.JPG
Pale-yellow robin (Tregellasia capito)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Petroicidae
Genus: Tregellasia
Mathews, 1912
Type species
Eopsaltria capito [1]
Gould, 1854
Species

2; see text

Tregellasia is a genus of birds in the family Petroicidae that are found in Australia and New Guinea.

The genus was introduced by the Australian ornithologist Gregory Mathews in 1912 with the pale-yellow robin (Tregellasia capito) as the type species. [2] The genus name was chosen to honour the Australian field ornithologist Thomas Henry Tregellas (1864-1938). [3]

Species

The genus contains the following two species: [4]

ImageCommon NameScientific nameDistribution
Tregellasia capito - Julatten.jpg Pale-yellow robin Tregellasia capitoeastern Australia
White-faced Robin (cropped).jpg White-faced robin Tregellasia leucopsNew Guinea and eastern Cape York Peninsula.

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References

  1. "Pectroicidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
  2. Mathews, Gregory (1912). "New generic names for Australian birds". Austral Avian Record. 1: 105–117 [110].
  3. Jobling, J.A. (2019). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Tregellasia". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive: Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
  4. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Australasian robins, rockfowl, rockjumpers, Rail-babbler". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 17 June 2019.