Wattled honeyeater explained

The wattled honeyeaters form a genus, Foulehaio, of birds in the honeyeater family Meliphagidae.

Taxonomy

The genus Foulehaio was introduced in 1852 by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach to accommodate a single species, the Polynesian wattled honeyeater, which is therefore considered as the type species.^{[1] [2]} The genus name is from the word in the Tongan language Foulehaio, Fuoulehaoi orFulehau for the Polynesian wattled honeyeater. The word had been used for the Polynesian wattled honeyeater by Jean-Baptiste Audebert and Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1802.^{[3] [4]}

The genus contains three species:^[5]

Image	Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
	Foulehaio carunculatus		American Samoa, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, and Wallis and Futuna Islands
	Foulehaio taviunensis		Fiji
	Foulehaio procerior		Fiji

Notes and References

1. Book: Reichenbach, Ludwig . Ludwig Reichenbach . 1852 . Handbuch der speciellen Ornithologie: Continuo No. IX Meropinae . German . Dresden und Leipzig . Expedition Vollständigsten Naturgeschichte . 110 . For the publication date see: Book: Dickinson . E.C. . Edward C. Dickinson . Overstreet . L.K. . Dowsett . R.J. . Bruce . M.D. . 2011 . Priority! The Dating of Scientific Names in Ornithology: a Directory to the literature and its reviewers . Northampton, UK . Aves Press . 978-0-9568611-1-5 . 134 .
2. Book: Paynter . Raymond A. Jr . 1986 . Check-list of Birds of the World . 12 . Museum of Comparative Zoology . Cambridge, Massachusetts . 392 .
3. Book: Jobling, James A. . 2010. The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . Christopher Helm . London . 978-1-4081-2501-4 . 163 .
4. Book: Audebert . J.B. . Jean-Baptiste Audebert . Vieillot . L.P. . Louis Pierre Vieillot . 1802 . Oiseaux Dorés ou à Reflets Métalliques . 2: Histoire Naturelle et Général de Grimpeux et des Oiseaux de Paradis . Paris . Chez Desray . 131 .
5. Web site: Gill . Frank . Frank Gill (ornithologist) . Donsker . David . Rasmussen . Pamela . Pamela Rasmussen . January 2023 . Honeyeaters . IOC World Bird List Version 13,1 . International Ornithologists' Union . 25 March 2023 .