Melidectes
Sign in to saveMelidectes is a genus of bird in the honeyeater family Meliphagidae. All six species are endemic to New Guinea. The generic name is derived from the Greek meli for honey and dektes for beggar or receiver.
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 467 inbound references to Melidectes, and connects out to Maluridae, bird and passerines.
It sits within the topics Birds of the New Guinea Highlands, Endemic birds of New Guinea and Melidectes.
Vinony links it to 22 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderPasseriformes
- FamilyMeliphagidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 9
- With media
- 2
- Family
- Meliphagidae
- Collections
- ROM, CLO, KU, BPBM
- Recorded in
- Indonesia, Papua New Guinea
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Meliphagidae
- Image
- Belford Melidectes.jpg
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- Commons category
- Melidectes
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Melidectes
- taxon name
- Melidectes
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
Article · Português
Melidectes é um género de ave da família Meliphagidae. Este género contém as seguintes espécies: * Melidectes belfordi * Melidectes foersteri * Melidectes fuscus * Melidectes leucostephes * Melidectes nouhuysi * Melidectes ochromelas * Melidectes princeps * Melidectes rufocrissalis * Melidectes sclateri * Melidectes torquatus * Melidectes whitemanensis
Abstract from DBpedia / Wikipedia · CC BY-SA