Tregellasia

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Tregellasia
Pale-yellow Robin Maiala.JPG
Pale-yellow robin (Tregellasia capito)
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Petroicidae
Genus: Tregellasia
Mathews, 1912
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.[1] The genus name was chosen to honour the Australian field ornithologist Thomas Henry Tregellas (1864-1938).[2]

Species[]

The genus contains the following two species:[3]

Image Common Name Scientific name Distribution
Tregellasia capito - Julatten.jpg Pale-yellow robin Tregellasia capito eastern Australia
White-faced Robin (cropped).jpg White-faced robin Tregellasia leucops New Guinea and eastern Cape York Peninsula.

References[]

  1. ^ Mathews, Gregory (1912). "New generic names for Australian birds". Austral Avian Record. 1: 105-117 [110].
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.
  • Del Hoyo, J.; Elliot, A. & Christie D. (editors). (2007). Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 12: Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Lynx Edicions. ISBN 978-84-96553-42-2


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