Kingdom Animalia Family Meliphagidae Rank Genus | Class Aves Phylum Chordata Order Passerine | |
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Similar Bridled honeyeater, Eungella honeyeater, Ptilotula, Passerine, Banded honeyeater | ||
Bolemoreus is a genus of honeyeaters endemic to Australia. It contains former members of Lichenostomus, and was created after a molecular phylogenetic analysis published in 2011 showed that the original genus was polyphyletic.
The genus contains two species:
The name Bolemoreus was first proposed by Árpád Nyári and Leo Joseph in 2011. The word combines the names of the Australian ornithologists Walter E. Boles and N. Wayne Longmore.
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