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Nesoptilotis

Nesoptilotis is a genus of honeyeaters endemic to Australia and Tasmania. The genus consists of two former members of Lichenostomus, and was created after a molecular phylogenetic analysis published in 2011 showed that the original genus was polyphyletic.

The genus contains two species:

The name Nesoptilotis was first proposed by the Australian ornithologist Gregory Mathews in 1913. The word is derived from the Greek nēsos island (i.e. Tasmania), ptilon feather and -ōtis eared.

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