Pomatostomus

Pomatostomus is a genus of small to medium-sized birds endemic to Australia-New Guinea. All four species are distributed in Australia, and only the grey-crowned babbler could also be found in south New Guinea.[1][2]

Pomatostomus
White-browed babbler Pomatostomus superciliosus.
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Pomatostomidae
Schodde, 1975
Genus: Pomatostomus
Cabanis, 1850
Species

Pomatostomus is the type genus of the family Pomatostomidae. It was the only genus in the family before the Papuan babbler was classified as a separate genus Garritornis.

Species

ImageScientific nameCommon NameDistribution
Pomatostomus temporalisGrey-crowned babblerAustralia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea.
Pomatostomus superciliosusWhite-browed babblercentral and southern Australia
Pomatostomus halliHall's babblereastern Australia
Pomatostomus ruficepsChestnut-crowned babblersouth-eastern Australia

References

  1. Winkler, David W.; Billerman, Shawn M.; Lovette, Irby J. (2020). "Pseudo-Babblers (Pomatostomidae), version 1.0". Birds of the World. doi:10.2173/bow.pomato2.01. S2CID 216215090.
  2. International Ornithologists' Union. "IOC World Bird List 12.2 (Multilingual Version)". doi:10.14344/ioc.ml.12.2. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)


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