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Machaerirhynchus
Sign in to saveMachaerirhynchus is a genus of passerine birds with affinities to woodswallows and butcherbirds. The two species are known as boatbills. The genus is distributed across New Guinea and northern Queensland.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Machaerirhynchus is referenced by 173 other articles, and connects out to Monarchidae, passerines and drongo.
Vinony files it under Bird genera, Birds of Oceania and Machaerirhynchus.
Its subject is documented across 24 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderPasseriformes
- FamilyMachaerirhynchidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 56
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Machaerirhynchidae
- Collections
- ROM, ANWC
- Recorded in
- Indonesia, Papua New Guinea
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- Parent taxon
- Machaerirhynchidae
- Image
- Yellow-breasted Boatbill (Machaerirhynchus flaviventer).jpg
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Machaerirhynchus is a genus of passerine birds with affinities to woodswallows and butcherbirds. The two species are known as boatbills. The genus is distributed across New Guinea and northern Queensland.
The species are: Black-breasted boatbill, M. nigripectus, found in New Guinea Yellow-breasted boatbill, M. flaviventer, found in northeast Australia
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Machaerirhynchus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.