Pomatostomus
Appearance
Pomatostomus | |
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White-browed babbler Pomatostomus superciliosus. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Pomatostomidae Schodde, 1975 |
Genus: | Pomatostomus Cabanis, 1851 |
Type species | |
Pomatorhinus temporalis[1] Vigors & Horsfield, 1827
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Species | |
Pomatostomus is a genus of small to medium-sized birds endemic to Australia-New Guinea. All four species are distributed in Australia, and only the grey-crowned babbler could also be found in south New Guinea.[2][3]
Pomatostomus is the type genus of the family Pomatostomidae. It was the only genus in the family before the Papuan babbler was classified as a separate genus Garritornis.
Species
[edit]Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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Pomatostomus temporalis | Grey-crowned babbler | Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. | |
Pomatostomus superciliosus | White-browed babbler | central and southern Australia | |
Pomatostomus halli | Hall's babbler | eastern Australia | |
Pomatostomus ruficeps | Chestnut-crowned babbler | south-eastern Australia |
References
[edit]- ^ "Pomatostomidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
- ^ Winkler, David W.; Billerman, Shawn M.; Lovette, Irby J. (2020). "Pseudo-Babblers (Pomatostomidae), version 1.0". Birds of the World. doi:10.2173/bow.pomato2.01. S2CID 216215090.
- ^ International Ornithologists' Union. "Multilingual Version" (XLSX). IOC World Bird List. 12.2.
External links
[edit]- Pseudo-babbler videos on the Internet Bird Collection