Cryptic Honeyeater
Meliphaga imitatrix(Mathews, GM, 1912)
English (US) Cryptic Honeyeater
The Cryptic Honeyeater (Meliphaga imitatrix) 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: northeastern Australia (southeastern Cape York Peninsula to Wet Tropics region, northern Queensland)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Meliphaga imitatrix
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Cryptic Honeyeater
- Described by
- (Mathews, GM, 1912)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Ptilotis gracilis imitatrix
- Described by
- (Mathews, GM, 1912)
- Type locality
- Cairns, northern Queensland.
- Original description
- Novitates Zoologicae 18, no.3 p.403
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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