Morotai Friarbird
Philemon fuscicapillus(Wallace, AR, 1862)
English (US) Morotai Friarbird
The Morotai Friarbird (Philemon fuscicapillus) 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: northern Moluccas (Morotai)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Philemon fuscicapillus
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Near Threatened
- English (US)
- Morotai Friarbird
- Described by
- (Wallace, AR, 1862)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Tropidorhynchus fuscicapillus
- Described by
- (Wallace, AR, 1862)
- Type locality
- Morty [= Morotai] Island, northern Moluccas.
- Original description
- Ibis ser.1, vol.4, no.16 p.351
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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