Mimic Honeyeater
Meliphaga analoga(Reichenbach, HGL, 1852)
English (US) Mimic Honeyeater
The Mimic Honeyeater (Meliphaga analoga) 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 Meliphagidae (Honeyeaters) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: New Guinea including western Papuan islands and Aru IslandsRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Meliphaga analoga
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Mimic Honeyeater
- Described by
- (Reichenbach, HGL, 1852)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Ptilotis analoga
- Described by
- (Reichenbach, HGL, 1852)
- Type locality
- 'Oceanien' [error for Triton Bay, western New Guinea]. Based on Ptilotis analogue Hombron and Jacquinot, Voy. Pole Sud, Zool., 3, atlas pi. 17, fig. 2; cf. Rand, 1936, Amer. Mus. Novit., no. 872, p. 13.
- Original description
- Handbuch der speciellen Ornithologie no.9 (Meropinae) p.103 tab.467 no.3332
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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