Garnet robin explained

The garnet robin (Eugerygone rubra) is a species of bird in the family Petroicidae. It is monotypic within the genus Eugerygone. It is found in New Guinea, where its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

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.[1] It was moved to the genus Eugerygone by the German naturalist, Otto Finsch, in 1901.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Sharpe . Richard Bowdler . Richard Bowdler Sharpe . 1879 . Pseudogerygone rubra . Notes from the Leyden Museum . 1 . 29–30 .
  2. Finsch . Otto . Otto Finsch . 1901 . Zur catalogisirung der ornithologischen abtheilung . de . Notes from the Leyden Museum . 22 . 3 . 193–224 [200] .