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(Redirected from Lichenostomus hindwoodi) Species of bird

Eungella honeyeater
Conservation status

Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Meliphagidae
Genus: Bolemoreus
Species: B. hindwoodi
Binomial name
Bolemoreus hindwoodi
(Longmore & Boles, 1983)
Synonyms

Lichenostomus hindwoodi

The Eungella honeyeater (Bolemoreus hindwoodi) is a species of bird in the family Meliphagidae and is endemic to Australia.

This species is found only in a small area of plateau rainforest in the Clarke Range, west of Mackay, in Queensland. Occasionally, this species can be seen foraging on the rainforest margin and adjacent open forest.

The species name hindwoodi is for Keith Alfred Hindwood (1904–71), an amateur ornithologist, who became the President of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union.

The birds at Eungella were long considered to be an outlying population of the bridled honeyeater (Bolemoreus frenatus, formerly Lichenostomus frenatus), but they were described as a separate species in 1983. The story of its discovery is documented here.

'Eungella' (/ˈjʌŋɡɛlə/ YUNG-gel-ə) is believed to be a local Aboriginal word for 'mountain of the mist' or 'land of cloud'.

The Eungella honeyeater was previously placed in the genus Lichenostomus, but was moved to Bolemoreus after a molecular phylogenetic analysis, published in 2011, showed that the original genus was polyphyletic.

References

  1. BirdLife International (2022). "Bolemoreus hindwoodi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2022: e.T22704046A211184381. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
  2. "Bolemoreus hindwoodi (Longmore & Boles, 1983)". Atlas of Living Australia. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
  3. Morcombe, Michael (2004). Field Guide to Australian Birds, Complete Compact Edition. Archerfield, Australia: Steve Parish Publishing Pty Ltd. p. 279. ISBN 174021559-1.
  4. Fraser, I & Gray, J 2013, Australian bird names: a complete guide, CSIRO Press, Collingwood, Vic.
  5. Longmore, NW & Boles, WE 1983. 'Description and systematics of the Eungella Honeyeater Meliphaga hindwoodi. A new species of Honeyeater from Central Eastern Queensland, Australia'. Emu, vol. 83, no. 2, pp. 59-65.
  6. Higgins, PJ, Peter, J & Steele, W (eds) 1999, Handbook of Australian, New Zealand & Antarctic birds, vol. 5: Tyrant-flycatchers to chats, OUP, Melbourne, pp. 720-4.
  7. Nyári, Á.S.; Joseph, L. (2011). "Systematic dismantlement of Lichenostomus improves the basis for understanding relationships within the honeyeaters (Meliphagidae) and historical development of Australo–Papuan bird communities". Emu. 111 (3): 202–211. doi:10.1071/mu10047. S2CID 85333285.
  8. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David (eds.). "Honeyeaters". World Bird List Version 6.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 28 January 2016.
Taxon identifiers
Bolemoreus hindwoodi
Meliphaga hindwoodi
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