Pitohui
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Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderPasseriformes
- FamilyOriolidae
Observations recorded6,744
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 6
- Family
- Oriolidae
- Collections
- USNM
- Recorded in
- Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, New Guinea
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Encyclopedic overview
Pitohui is a genus of birds endemic to New Guinea. The birds formerly lumped together as pitohuis were found by a 2008 study that examined their evolutionary history on the basis of the genetic sequences to have included birds that were quite unrelated to each other. They have since been separated into other genera.
Taxonomy and systematics
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pitohui” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.