Toxorhamphus
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Toxorhamphus is a genus of bird
in the Melanocharitidae
family. They are commonly known as longbills and were once thought to be in the honeyeater
family. The genus is endemic to the islands of New Guinea
.
It contains the following species:
Bird
Birds are feathered, winged, bipedal, endothermic , egg-laying, vertebrate animals. Around 10,000 living species and 188 families makes them the most speciose class of tetrapod vertebrates. They inhabit ecosystems across the globe, from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Extant birds range in size from...
in the Melanocharitidae
Melanocharitidae
The Melanocharitidae, the berrypeckers and longbills, is a small bird family restricted to the forests of New Guinea. The family contains ten species in four genera...
family. They are commonly known as longbills and were once thought to be in the honeyeater
Honeyeater
The honeyeaters are a large and diverse family of small to medium sized birds most common in Australia and New Guinea, but also found in New Zealand, the Pacific islands as far east as Samoa and Tonga, and the islands to the north and west of New Guinea known as Wallacea...
family. The genus is endemic to the islands of New Guinea
New Guinea
New Guinea is the world's second largest island, after Greenland, covering a land area of 786,000 km2. Located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, it lies geographically to the east of the Malay Archipelago, with which it is sometimes included as part of a greater Indo-Australian Archipelago...
.
It contains the following species:
- Dwarf Longbill (Toxorhamphus iliolophus)
- Yellow-bellied Longbill (Toxorhamphus novaeguineae)
- Slaty-headed Longbill (Toxorhamphus poliopterus)