Tregellasia Explained
Tregellasia is a genus of birds in the family Petroicidae that are found in Australia and New Guinea.
The genus was introduced by the Australian ornithologist Gregory Mathews in 1912 with the pale-yellow robin (Tregellasia capito) as the type species.[1] The genus name was chosen to honour the Australian field ornithologist Thomas Henry Tregellas (1864-1938).[2]
Species
The genus contains the following two species:[3]
| Image | Common Name | Scientific name | Distribution |
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| | Tregellasia capito | eastern Australia |
| | Tregellasia leucops | New Guinea and eastern Cape York Peninsula. |
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References
Notes and References
- Mathews . Gregory . Gregory Mathews . 1912 . New generic names for Australian birds . Austral Avian Record . 1 . 105–117 [110] .
- Web site: Jobling . J.A. . 2019 . Tregellasia . del Hoyo . J. . Elliott . A. . Sargatal . J. . Christie . D.A. . de Juana . E. . Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive: Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology . Lynx Edicions . 17 June 2019 .
- 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 . 17 June 2019 .
