Garnet robin
The garnet robin (Eugerygone rubra) is a species of bird in the family Petroicidae. It is monotypic within the genus Eugerygone.[2] It is found in New Guinea, where its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.[1]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Petroicidae |
| Genus: | Eugerygone Finsch, 1901 |
| Species: | E. rubra |
| Binomial name | |
| Eugerygone rubra (Sharpe, 1879) | |
Taxonomy
The garnet robin was described by the English ornithologist, Richard Bowdler Sharpe, in 1879, from a specimen collected in the Arfak Mountains on the island of New Guinea. He coined the binomial name Pseudogerygone rubra.[3] It was moved to the genus Eugerygone by the German naturalist, Otto Finsch, in 1901.[4]
References
- BirdLife International (2012). "Eugerygone rubra". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- "ITIS Report: Eugerygone". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
- Sharpe, Richard Bowdler (1879). "Pseudogerygone rubra". Notes from the Leyden Museum. 1: 29–30.
- Finsch, Otto (1901). "Zur catalogisirung der ornithologischen abtheilung". Notes from the Leyden Museum (in German). 22 (3): 193-224 [200].
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