Banded honeyeater
| Banded honeyeater | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Meliphagidae |
| Genus: |
Cissomela Bonaparte, 1854 |
| Species: | C. pectoralis |
| Binomial name | |
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Cissomela pectoralis (Gould, 1841) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Certhionyx pectoralis |
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Certhionyx pectoralis
The banded honeyeater (Cissomela pectoralis) is a species of bird in the family Meliphagidae. It is endemic to northern Australia.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, and Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation.
The banded honeyeater was previously placed in the genus Certhionyx but was moved to the monotypic genus Cissomela after a molecular phylogenetic analysis published in 2011 showed that the original genus was polyphyletic.
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