Long-billed honeyeater
Species of bird
Long-billed honeyeater | |
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Illustration by Joseph Smit, 1884 | |
Conservation status | |
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1] | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Meliphagidae |
Genus: | Melilestes Salvadori, 1876 |
Species: | M. megarhynchus |
Binomial name | |
Melilestes megarhynchus (Gray, 1858) | |
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The long-billed honeyeater (Melilestes megarhynchus) is a species of bird in the family Meliphagidae. It is monotypic within the genus Melilestes.[2]
Distribution and habitat
It is found in New Guinea and offshore islands,[1] where its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.[1]
References
- ^ a b c BirdLife International (2018). "Melilestes megarhynchus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22703934A130242300. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22703934A130242300.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
- ^ "ITIS Report: Melilestes". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
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Genera of passerines and their extinct allies
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Aves
- Clade: Psittacopasseres
- Order: Passeriformes
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