Kingdom Animalia Order Passeriformes Genus Bolemoreus Higher classification Lichenostomus | Phylum Chordata Family Meliphagidae Scientific name Lichenostomus hindwoodi Rank Species | |
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Similar Honeyeater, Bridled honeyeater, White‑streaked honeyeater, Bird, Black‑bellied myzomela | ||
Eungella honeyeater
The Eungella honeyeater (Bolemoreus hindwoodi) is a species of bird in the family Meliphagidae and is endemic to Australia.
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This species is found only in a small area of plateau rainforest in the Clarke Range west of Mackay in Queensland. Occasionally this species can be seen foraging on the rainforest margin and adjacent open forest.
The species name hindwoodi is for Keith Alfred Hindwood (1904–71), an amateur ornithologist who became the President of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union.
The birds at Eungella were long considered to be an outlier of the bridled honeyeater (Lichenostomus frenatus) but the Eungella honeyeater was split from the bridled honeyeater in 1983. The story of its discovery is documented here.
'Eungella' (pronounced yun-gella with a hard 'g' (as in gift) and the stress on the first syllable) is believed to be an Aboriginal word for 'mountain of the mist'.
The Eungella honeyeater was previously placed in the genus Lichenostomus but was moved to Bolemoreus after a molecular phylogenetic analysis published in 2011 showed that the original genus was polyphyletic.
