Peneothello Explained

Peneothello is a genus of passerine birds in the Australasian robin family Petroicidae.

The genus Peneothello was introduced by the Australian born ornithologist Gregory Mathews in 1920 with white-winged robin (Peneothello sigillata) as the type species.^[1] The name combines the Latin pene "almost" and othello. Othello is the "Moorish" (i.e. black) Shakespeare character.^[2]

Species

The genus contains the following five species:^[3]

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
	Peneothello sigillata		New Guinea
	Peneothello cryptoleuca		West Papua, Indonesia.
	Peneothello cyanus		New Guinea
	Peneothello bimaculata		New Guinea
	Peneothello pulverulenta	Mangrove robin	Aru Islands, New Guinea, and northern Australia.

Notes and References

1. Book: Mathews, Gregory . Gregory Mathews . 1920 . Birds of Australia . 8 . London . Witherby . 185 .
2. Web site: Jobling . J.A. . 2019 . Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology . del Hoyo . J. . Elliott . A. . Sargatal . J. . Christie . D.A. . de Juana . E. . Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive . Lynx Edicions . 16 June 2019 .
3. Web site: Gill . Frank . Frank Gill (ornithologist) . Donsker . David . 2019 . Australasian robins, rockfowl, rockjumpers, Rail-babbler . World Bird List Version 9.2 . International Ornithologists' Union . 16 June 2019 .