Wattled honeyeater
Genus of birds
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The wattled honeyeaters form a genus, Foulehaio, of birds in the honeyeater family Meliphagidae.
.jpg)
| Wattled honeyeater | |
|---|---|
| |
| Polynesian wattled honeyeater (Foulehaio carunculatus) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Meliphagidae |
| Genus: | Foulehaio Reichenbach, 1852 |
| Type species | |
| Philemon musicus = Certhia carunculata Vieillot, 1826 | |
| Species | |
|
3 recognized species, see article. | |
Taxonomy
The genus Foulehaio was introduced in 1852 by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach to accommodate a single species, the Polynesian wattled honeyeater, which is therefore considered as the type species.[1][2] The genus name is from the word in the Tongan language Foulehaio, Fuoulehaoi or Fulehau for the Polynesian wattled honeyeater. The word had been used for the Polynesian wattled honeyeater by Jean-Baptiste Audebert and Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1802.[3][4]
The genus contains three species:[5]
| Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Foulehaio carunculatus | Polynesian wattled honeyeater | American Samoa, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, and Wallis and Futuna Islands |
 | Foulehaio taviunensis | Fiji wattled honeyeater | Fiji |
 | Foulehaio procerior | Kikau | Fiji |
