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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Superfamily: | Bombycilloidea |
Family: | Hylocitreidae Fjeldsa, Ericson, Johannson, & Zuccon 2015 |
Genus: | Hylocitrea Mathews, 1925 |
Species: |
H. bonensis
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Binomial name | |
Hylocitrea bonensis (Meyer & Wiglesworth, 1894) |
The hylocitrea (Hylocitrea bonensis), also known as the yellow-flanked whistlerorolive-flanked whistler, is a species of bird that is endemic to montane forests on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.[3] It is monotypic within the genus Hylocitrea, and has traditionally been considered a member of the family Pachycephalidae, but recent genetic evidence suggests it should be placed in a monotypic subfamily of the family Bombycillidae,[4] or even its own family, Hylocitreidae.[1] A 2019 study[5] found it to be a sister group to a clade containing the hypocolius (Hypocoliidae) and the extinct Hawaiian honeyeaters (Mohoidae), with the clade containing all three being a sister group to the silky-flycatchers (Ptiliogonatidae). The divergences forming these families occurred in the early Miocene, about 20-23 million years ago.[5][6]
Hylocitrea |
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Hylocitrea bonensis |
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Hylocitreidae |
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