Family Meliphagidae Rank Genus | Class Aves Phylum Chordata Order Passerine | |
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Similar Ptilotula, Singing honeyeater, Passerine, Varied honeyeater, Mangrove honeyeater | ||
Gavicalis is a genus of honeyeaters endemic to New Guinea and 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 three species:
The name Gavicalis was first proposed by the Australian ornithologists Richard Schodde and Ian Mason in 1999. The word is an anagram of Caligavis introduced by Tom Iredale.
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