Eurylaimus

Eurylaimus
	Banded broadbill (Eurylaimus javanicus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Eurylaimidae
Genus:	Eurylaimus; Horsfield, 1821

Eurylaimus is a genus of broadbills (family Eurylaimidae). The name means ‘broad throat’, from the Greek eurus (εὐρύς, ‘broad, wide’) and laimos (λαιμός, ‘throat’).^[1]

The genus is found in Southeast Asia and contains the following species:

Banded broadbill (Eurylaimus javanicus)
Black-and-yellow broadbill (Eurylaimus ochromalus)
Visayan broadbill (Eurylaimus samarensis)
Wattled broadbill (Eurylaimus steerii)

References

^ William Somerville Orr (1855). Orr's circle of the sciences: a series of treatises on the principles of science, with their application to practical pursuits. p. 517.

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[1] William Somerville Orr (1855). Orr's circle of the sciences: a series of treatises on the principles of science, with their application to practical pursuits. p. 517.

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