Drymodes
Sign in to saveDrymodes is a genus of birds 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:
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- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderPasseriformes
- FamilyPetroicidae
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Drymodes is a genus of birds 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:
==Species== The genus contains the following three species: {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Scientific name !! Common name !! Distribution |- |120px || Drymodes brunneopygia || Southern scrub robin || Australia |- | || Drymodes superciliaris || Northern scrub robin || Northern Territory of Australia |- | || Drymodes beccarii || Papuan scrub robin|| New Guinea and the Aru Islands |- |}