Pomatostomus
Sign in to savePomatostomus is a genus of small to medium-sized birds endemic to Australia-New Guinea. All four species are distributed in Australia, and only the grey-crowned babbler could also be found in south New Guinea.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 25
- Family
- Pomatostomidae
- Collections
- ANWC, NMV, SAMA, QM, WAM, NHMUK
- Recorded in
- Papua New Guinea, Australia
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- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Australo-Papuan babbler
- Image
- Grey-crowned babbler08.JPG
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Pomatostomus is a genus of small to medium-sized birds endemic to Australia-New Guinea. All four species are distributed in Australia, and only the grey-crowned babbler could also be found in south New Guinea.
Pomatostomus is the type genus of the family Pomatostomidae. It was the only genus in the family before the Papuan babbler was classified as a separate genus Garritornis.
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