Tregellasia is a genus of birds in the family Petroicidae that are found in Australia and New Guinea.
| Tregellasia | |
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| Pale-yellow robin (Tregellasia capito) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Infraorder: | Passerides |
| Family: | Petroicidae |
| Genus: | Tregellasia Mathews, 1912 |
| Type species | |
| Eopsaltria capito[1] Gould, 1854
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| Species | |
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2; see text | |
The genus was introduced by the Australian ornithologist Gregory Mathews in 1912 with the pale-yellow robin (Tregellasia capito) as the type species.[2] The genus name was chosen to honour the Australian field ornithologist Thomas Henry Tregellas (1864-1938).[3]
Species
editThe genus contains the following two species:[4]
| Image | Common Name | Scientific name | Distribution |
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Pale-yellow robin | Tregellasia capito | eastern Australia |
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White-faced robin | Tregellasia leucops | New Guinea and eastern Cape York Peninsula. |
References
edit- ^ "Pectroicidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
- ^ Mathews, Gregory (1912). "New generic names for Australian birds". Austral Avian Record. 1: 105–117 [110].
- ^ Jobling, J.A. (2019). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Tregellasia". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive: Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Australasian robins, rockfowl, rockjumpers, Rail-babbler". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
Further reading
edit- Del Hoyo, J.; Elliot, A. & Christie D. (editors). (2007). Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 12: Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Lynx Edicions. ISBN 978-84-96553-42-2
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