Myzomela
| Myzomela | |
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| Sulphur-breasted myzomela | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Meliphagidae |
| Genus: | Myzomela Vigors & Horsfield, 1827 |
Myzomela is a genus of bird in the honeyeater family Meliphagidae. It is the largest genus of honeyeaters, with 31 species, and the most geographically widespread. It ranges from Indonesia to Australia and into the islands of the Pacific Ocean as far as Micronesia and Samoa.
The genus was introduced by the naturalists Nicholas Vigors and Thomas Horsfield in 1827. The type species is the scarlet myzomela (Myzomela sanguinolenta).[1]
It contains the following species:[2]
- Mountain myzomela (Myzomela adolphinae)
- White-chinned myzomela (Myzomela albigula)
- Drab myzomela (Myzomela blasii)
- Banda myzomela (Myzomela boiei)
- New Caledonian myzomela (Myzomela caledonica)
- Cardinal myzomela (Myzomela cardinalis)
- Rotuma myzomela (Myzomela chermesina)
- Sulawesi myzomela (Myzomela chloroptera)
- Ashy myzomela (Myzomela cineracea)
- Red myzomela (Myzomela cruentata)
- Sumba myzomela (Myzomela dammermani)
- Crimson-rumped myzomela (Myzomela eichhorni)
- Ruby-throated myzomela (Myzomela eques)
- Red-headed myzomela (Myzomela erythrocephala)
- Black-bellied myzomela (Myzomela erythromelas)
- Rote myzomela (Myzomela irianawidodoae)
- Sulphur-breasted myzomela (Myzomela jugularis)
- Crimson-hooded myzomela (Myzomela kuehni)
- Red-capped myzomela (Myzomela lafargei)
- Red-vested myzomela (Myzomela malaitae)
- Black-headed myzomela (Myzomela melanocephala)
- Papuan black myzomela (Myzomela nigrita)
- Dusky myzomela (Myzomela obscura)
- Bismarck black myzomela (Myzomela pammelaena)
- New Ireland myzomela (Myzomela pulchella)
- Red-collared myzomela (Myzomela rosenbergii)
- Micronesian myzomela (Myzomela rubratra)
- Scarlet myzomela (Myzomela sanguinolenta)
- Sclater's myzomela (Myzomela sclateri)
- Sooty myzomela (Myzomela tristrami)
- Black-breasted myzomela (Myzomela vulnerata)
- Wakolo myzomela (Myzomela wakoloensis)
References
- ^ Vigors, Nicholas Aylward; Horsfield, Thomas (1827). "Australian birds in the collection of the Linnean Society; with an attempt at arranging them according to their natural affinities". Transactions of the Linnean Society of London (in English and Latin). 15 (1): 170–334 [316]. The title page is dated 1826.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David (eds.). "Honeyeaters". World Bird List Version 6.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
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