Black-throated honeyeater
Species of bird
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The black-throated honeyeater (Caligavis subfrenata) is a species of bird in the family Meliphagidae. It is found in New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.
| Black-throated honeyeater | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Meliphagidae |
| Genus: | Caligavis |
| Species: | C. subfrenata |
| Binomial name | |
| Caligavis subfrenata (Salvadori, 1876) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Lichenostomus subfrenatus Salvadori, 1876 | |
The black-throated honeyeater was originally described in 1876 as Lichenostomus subfrenatus, but was moved to Caligavis after a molecular phylogenetic analysis published in 2011 showed that Lichenostomus was polyphyletic.[2][3]
