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]

Garnet robin
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Petroicidae
Genus: Eugerygone
Finsch, 1901
Species:
E. rubra
Binomial name
Eugerygone rubra
(Sharpe, 1879)

Taxonomy edit

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 edit

  1. ^ a b BirdLife International (2017). "Eugerygone rubra". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T22704792A118816706. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T22704792A118816706.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ "ITIS Report: Eugerygone". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
  3. ^ Sharpe, Richard Bowdler (1879). "Pseudogerygone rubra". Notes from the Leyden Museum. 1: 29–30.
  4. ^ Finsch, Otto (1901). "Zur catalogisirung der ornithologischen abtheilung". Notes from the Leyden Museum (in German). 22 (3): 193–224 [200].