Lyre-tailed Honeyguide
Melichneutes robustus(Bates, GL, 1909)
English (US) Lyre-tailed Honeyguide
The Lyre-tailed Honeyguide (Melichneutes robustus) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Indicatoridae (Honeyguides) in the order Piciformes.
Range: Guinea to northwestern Angola, Central African Republic, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, and southern UgandaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Melichneutes robustus
- Order
- Piciformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Lyre-tailed Honeyguide
- Described by
- (Bates, GL, 1909)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Melignomon robustus
- Described by
- (Bates, GL, 1909)
- Type locality
- Bitye, River Ja, Cameroons.
- Original description
- Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 25 p.26
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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