Myadestes
| Myadestes | |
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| Puaiohi (M. palmeri) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Turdidae |
| Genus: | Myadestes Swainson, 1838 |
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Myadestes is a genus of solitaires, medium-sized mostly insectivorous birds in the thrush family, Turdidae.
They are found in the Americas and Hawaiʻi, where several island species have become extinct.
Species in taxonomic order
- Myadestes townsendi Audubon, 1838 - Townsend's solitaire (North America)
- Myadestes occidentalis Stejneger, 1882 - brown-backed solitaire (Mexico, northern Central America)
- Myadestes elisabeth Lembeye, 1850 - Cuban solitaire
- Myadestes elisabeth retrusus - pines solitaire (probably extinct, late 1930s, or 1970s?)
- Myadestes genibarbis - rufous-throated solitaire (Caribbean)
- Myadestes melanops - black-faced solitaire (Costa Rica, western Panama)
- Myadestes coloratus Nelson, 1912 - varied solitaire (Panama, Colombia)
- Myadestes unicolor Sclater, 1857 - slate-coloured solitaire (Mexico, Central America)
- Myadestes ralloides D'Orbigny, 1840 - Andean solitaire
- Myadestes myadestinus - kāmaʻo (Kauaʻi) (extinct, 1990s)
- Myadestes lanaiensis Wilson, 1891 - olomaʻo
- Myadestes lanaiensis lanaiensis - Lānaʻi olomaʻo (extinct, 1931–1933)
- Myadestes lanaiensis rutha - Molokaʻi olomaʻo (probably extinct, 1980s?)
- Myadestes obscurus J. F. Gmelin, 1789 - ʻōmaʻo (island of Hawaiʻi)
- Myadestes palmeri Rothschild, 1893 - puaiohi (Kauaʻi)
- Myadestes woahensis Bloxam, 1899 - ʻāmaui (Oʻahu) (extinct, 1850s)
References
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