Kingdom Animalia Scientific name Drymodes Higher classification Petroicidae Order Passerine | Family Petroicidae Phylum Chordata Rank Genus | |
Lower classifications Southern scrub robin, Northern scrub robin | ||
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Drymodes is a genus of bird in the family Petroicidae. It was traditionally held to have two species, but molecular and behavioural differences led to the split of the New Guinea populations from the northern scrub robin. The paper by Les Christidis and colleagues was published in 2011 and the IOC adopted the split in 2015:
Contents
Southern scrub robin drymodes brunneopygia
Species
The genus contains the following three species:
References
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