Microeca
| Microeca | |
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| Jacky winter (Microeca fascinans) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Infraorder: | Passerides |
| Family: | Petroicidae |
| Genus: | Microeca Gould, 1841 |
| Species | |
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7; see text | |
Microeca is a genus of bird in the Petroicidae family. The species in this genus are commonly known as flyrobins (along with the closely related torrent flyrobin).
Species
The genus contains the following seven species:
- Jacky winter (Microeca fascinans)
- Lemon-bellied flyrobin or lemon-bellied flycatcher (Microeca flavigaster)
- Yellow-bellied flyrobin or yellow-bellied robin (Microeca flaviventris)[1]
- Olive flyrobin (Microeca flavovirescens)
- Yellow-legged flyrobin or yellow-legged flycatcher (Microeca griseoceps)
- Golden-bellied flyrobin or Tanimbar flyrobin (Microeca hemixantha)
- Canary flyrobin or Papuan flycatcher (Microeca papuana)
References
- ^ Loynes, Kate; Joseph, Leo; Keogh, J. Scott (2009). "Multi-locus phylogeny clarifies the systematics of the Australo-Papuan robins (Family Petroicidae, Passeriformes)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 53 (1): 212–19. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2009.05.012. PMID 19463962.
- Del Hoyo, J.; Elliot, A. & Christie D. (editors). (2007). Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 12: Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Lynx Edicions. ISBN 978-84-96553-42-2
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