Tanimbar friarbird

The Tanimbar friarbird (Philemon plumigenis) is a species of bird in the family Meliphagidae. It is endemic to the Kai and Tanimbar Islands, Indonesia.

Tanimbar friarbird
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Meliphagidae
Genus:	Philemon
Species:	P. plumigenis
Binomial name
Philemon plumigenis (GR Gray, 1858)

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

It was first described by the English ornithologist George Robert Gray in 1858 under the binomial name Tropidorhynchus plumigenis.^[2] The specific epithet is from the Latin pluma meaning plume and genis meaning cheeks.^[3]

The Tanimbar friarbird was split from the Buru friarbird that occurs on the island of Buru following the publication in 2007 of a study by Frank Rheindt and Robert Hutchinson.^[4][5]

References

1. BirdLife International 2017. Philemon plumigenis (amended version of 2016 assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T103686165A112507866. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-1.RLTS.T103686165A112507866.en. Downloaded on 19 August 2019.
2. Gray, George Robert (1858). "A list of the birds, with descriptions of new species obtained by Mr. Alfred R. Wallace in the Aru and Ké Islands". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. Part 26: 174.
3. Jobling, James A (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 310. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
4. Rheindt, F.E.; Hutchinson, R. (2007). "A photoshot odyssey through the confused avian taxonomy of Seram and Buru (Southern Moluccas)". Birding Asia. 7: 18–38.
5. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David (eds.). "Honeyeaters". World Bird List Version 6.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 31 January 2016.