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Meliphagidae
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The honeyeaters are a large and diverse family, Meliphagidae, of small to medium-sized birds. The family includes the Australian chats, myzomelas, friarbirds, wattlebirds, miners and melidectes. They are most common in Australia and New Guinea, but can also be found in New Zealand, the Pacific islands as far east as Samoa and Tonga, and the Indoneisan islands to the north and west of New Guinea known as Wallacea. Bali, on the other side of the Wallace Line, has a single species.
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Meliphagidae is a family of birds within the order Passeriformes, class Aves, and phylum Chordata. The taxon belongs to the superfamily Meliphagoidea and is governed by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. Its scientific name was established by Vigors in 1825, and the family has an accepted status according to WoRMS. The common name for the group is honningeterfamilien.
Records for Meliphagidae are held by various institutions, including ANWC, with specific occurrences documented in Papua New Guinea. The family has been described in the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition.
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Meliphagidae
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderPasseriformes
- FamilyMeliphagidae
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Museum specimens
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- Family
- Meliphagidae
- Collections
- ANWC
- Recorded in
- Papua New Guinea
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- Meliphagoidea
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- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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- honningeterfamilien
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The honeyeaters are a large and diverse family, Meliphagidae, of small to medium-sized birds. The family includes the Australian chats, myzomelas, friarbirds, wattlebirds, miners and melidectes. They are most common in Australia and New Guinea, but can also be found in New Zealand, the Pacific islands as far east as Samoa and Tonga, and the Indoneisan islands to the north and west of New Guinea known as Wallacea. Bali, on the other side of the Wallace Line, has a single species.
In total, there are 186 species in 55 genera, roughly half of them native to Australia, many of the remainder occupying New Guinea. With their closest relatives, the Maluridae (Australian fairy-wrens), Pardalotidae (pardalotes), and Acanthizidae (thornbills, Australian warblers, scrubwrens, etc.), they comprise the superfamily Meliphagoidea and originated early in the evolutionary history of the oscine passerine radiation. Although honeyeaters look and behave very much like other nectar-feeding passerines around the world (such as the sunbirds and flowerpeckers), they are unrelated, and the similarities are the consequence of convergent evolution.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Meliphagidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.