Yellow-tinted honeyeater

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Yellow-tinted honeyeater
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Meliphagidae
Genus: Ptilotula
Species:
P. flavescens
Binomial name
Ptilotula flavescens
(Gould, 1840)
Synonyms

Lichenostomus flavescens

The yellow-tinted honeyeater (Ptilotula flavescens) is a species of bird in the family Meliphagidae. It is found in Australia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.

The yellow-tinted honeyeater was previously included in the genus Lichenostomus , but was moved to Ptilotula after a molecular phylogenetic analysis, published in 2011, showed that the original genus was polyphyletic. [2] [3]

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References

  1. BirdLife International (2016). "Ptilotula flavescens". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016: e.T22704085A93952132. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22704085A93952132.en . Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. Nyári, Á.S.; Joseph, L. (2011). "Systematic dismantlement of Lichenostomus improves the basis for understanding relationships within the honeyeaters (Meliphagidae) and historical development of Australo–Papuan bird communities". Emu. 111 (3): 202–211. doi:10.1071/mu10047. S2CID   85333285.
  3. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David (eds.). "Honeyeaters". World Bird List Version 6.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 28 January 2016.