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Caligavis
Caligavis chrysops (yellow-faced honeyeater)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Meliphagidae
Genus: Caligavis
Iredale, 1956
Type species
Ptilotis obscura[1]
De Vis 1897

Caligavis is a genus of honeyeaters endemic to New Guinea and Australia. It includes former members of Lichenostomus, and was created after a molecular phylogenetic analysis published in 2011 showed that the original genus was polyphyletic.[2]

Species

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The genus contains three species:[3]

Image Scientific name Common Name Distribution
C. chrysops Yellow-faced honeyeater south, east Australia
C. subfrenata Black-throated honeyeater New Guinea
C. obscura Obscure honeyeater New Guinea

The name Caligavis was first proposed by the English-born ornithologist Tom Iredale in 1956.[4][5] The word is derived from the Latin caligo meaning obscurity and avis bird.[6]

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