| Garnet robin | |
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| Conservation status | |
 Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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) | |
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. It was moved to the genus Eugerygone by the German naturalist, Otto Finsch, in 1901.
References
- ^ 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.
- "ITIS Report: Eugerygone". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
- Sharpe, Richard Bowdler (1879). "Pseudogerygone rubra". Notes from the Leyden Museum. 1: 29–30.
- Finsch, Otto (1901). "Zur catalogisirung der ornithologischen abtheilung". Notes from the Leyden Museum (in German). 22 (3): 193–224 .
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Eugerygone rubra | |
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