Pomatostomus | |
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White-browed babbler Pomatostomus superciliosus. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Pomatostomidae Schodde, 1975 |
Genus: | Pomatostomus Cabanis, 1851 |
Type species | |
Pomatorhinus temporalis Vigors & Horsfield, 1827 | |
Species | |
Pomatostomus is a genus of small to medium-sized birds endemic to Australia-New Guinea. All four species are distributed in Australia, and only the grey-crowned babbler could also be found in south New Guinea.
Pomatostomus is the type genus of the family Pomatostomidae. It was the only genus in the family before the Papuan babbler was classified as a separate genus Garritornis.
Species
Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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Pomatostomus temporalis | Grey-crowned babbler | Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. | |
Pomatostomus superciliosus | White-browed babbler | central and southern Australia | |
Pomatostomus halli | Hall's babbler | eastern Australia | |
Pomatostomus ruficeps | Chestnut-crowned babbler | south-eastern Australia |
References
- "Pomatostomidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
- Winkler, David W.; Billerman, Shawn M.; Lovette, Irby J. (2020). "Pseudo-Babblers (Pomatostomidae), version 1.0". Birds of the World. doi:10.2173/bow.pomato2.01. S2CID 216215090.
- International Ornithologists' Union. "Multilingual Version" (XLSX). IOC World Bird List. 12.2.
External links
- Pseudo-babbler videos on the Internet Bird Collection
Taxon identifiers | |
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Pomatostomus |
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