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Monarcha
Sign in to saveMonarcha is a genus of bird in the family Monarchidae. They are found in Australia and Melanesia.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderPasseriformes
- FamilyMonarchidae
Observations recorded97,460
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 155
- With media
- 5
- Family
- Monarchidae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, MSB, CAS, CLO, CUMV, UMZC
- Recorded in
- Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Northern Mariana Islands, Italy, Federated States Of Micronesia, Ireland, England; U.K., [Sarawak; Malaysia]
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Taxonomy and systematics
- Extant species
- Former species
- References
Monarcha is a genus of bird in the family Monarchidae. They are found in Australia and Melanesia.
==Taxonomy and systematics== The genus Monarcha was introduced by naturalists Nicholas Vigors and Thomas Horsfield in 1827 with the black-faced monarch (Monarcha melanopsis) as the type species. The genus formerly included many more species. Based on the results of a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2005 nineteen species were moved to the resurrected genus Symposiachrus and three to Carterornis.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Monarcha” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.