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Heteromyias
Sign in to saveHeteromyias is a genus of passerine birds in the Australasian robin family Petroicidae.
Species
Grey-headed Robin
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderPasseriformes
- FamilyPetroicidae
Observations668
Observations recorded24,591
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 157
- With media
- 2
- Family
- Petroicidae
- Collections
- ANWC, NMV
- Recorded in
- Papua New Guinea, Australia
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Heteromyias is a genus of passerine birds in the Australasian robin family Petroicidae.
The genus was introduced by the English zoologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe in 1879 with the grey-headed robin (Heteromyias cinereifrons) as the type species. The name of the genus combines the Ancient Greek "different" and the Modern Latin "flycatcher".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Heteromyias” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.