Common smoky honeyeater

Common smoky honeyeater
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Meliphagidae
Genus: Melipotes
Species: M. fumigatus
Binomial name
Melipotes fumigatus
Meyer, 1886

The common smoky honeyeater (Melipotes fumigatus) is a species of bird in the honeyeater family Meliphagidae. It is one of four species in the genus Melipotes, all closely related and forming a superspecies. After another similar species, the wattled smoky honeyeater, was discovered in 2005 in the Foja Mountains it has also been called the common smoky honeyeater.[2]

The species is endemic to the island of New Guinea, where it occurs in the Central Ranges across the length of the island as well as two isolated populations on north west and north of the island. There are three subspecies; the nominate race occurs in the eastern Herzog Mountains and south east New Guinea, M. f. kumawa is restricted to the southern Bomberai Peninsula and M. f. goliathi ranges from the Weyland Mountains to the western Herzog Mountains.

See also

References

  1. ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Melipotes fumigatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 16 July 2012.
  2. ↑ Higgins, P.J.; Christidis, L.; Ford, H.A. (2008), "Family Meliphagidae (Honeyeaters)", in Josep, del Hoyo; Andrew, Elliott; David, Christie, Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 13, Penduline-tits to Shrikes, Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, pp. 632–633, ISBN 978-84-96553-45-3
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