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Myza
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For the Myza Bridge and the Myza Railway Station in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, see Prioksky City District.
Myza is a genus of bird in the family Meliphagidae. Established by Adolf Bernhard Meyer and Lionel William Wiglesworth in 1895, it contains the following species:[2]
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Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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Myza celebensis | Dark-eared myza | island of Sulawesi in Indonesia | |
Myza sarasinorum | White-eared myza | Sulawesi in Indonesia | |
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Myza | |
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White-eared myza (Myza sarasinorum) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Meliphagidae |
Genus: | Myza A. B. Meyer & Wiglesworth, 1895 |
Type species | |
Myza sarasinorum[1] A.B. Meyer & Wiglesworth, 1895 |
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The name Myza comes from the Greek word muzaō, meaning "to suck".[3]