Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Cladus: Sarcopterygii
Cladus: Rhipidistia
Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha
Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes
Cladus: Elpistostegalia
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Classis: Reptilia
Cladus: Eureptilia
Cladus: Romeriida
Subclassis: Diapsida
Cladus: Sauria
Infraclassis: Archosauromorpha
Cladus: Crurotarsi
Divisio: Archosauria
Cladus: Avemetatarsalia
Cladus: Ornithodira
Subtaxon: Dinosauromorpha
Cladus: Dinosauriformes
Cladus: Dracohors
Cladus: Dinosauria
Cladus: Saurischia
Cladus: Eusaurischia
Subordo: Theropoda
Cladus: Neotheropoda
Cladus: Averostra
Cladus: Tetanurae
Cladus: Avetheropoda
Cladus: Coelurosauria
Cladus: Tyrannoraptora
Cladus: Maniraptoromorpha
Cladus: Maniraptoriformes
Cladus: Maniraptora
Cladus: Pennaraptora
Cladus: Paraves
Cladus: Eumaniraptora
Cladus: Avialae
Infraclassis: Aves
Cladus: Avebrevicauda
Cladus: Pygostylia
Cladus: Ornithothoraces
Cladus: Ornithuromorpha
Cladus: Carinatae
Parvclassis: Neornithes
Cohors: Neognathae
Cladus: Neoaves
Cladus: Telluraves
Cladus: Australaves
Ordo: Passeriformes
Subordo: Passeri
Infraordo: Corvida
Superfamilia: Meliphagoidea
Familia: Acanthizidae
Genus: Gerygone
Species (20): G. albofrontata - G. chloronota - G. chrysogaster - G. dorsalis - G. flavolateralis – G. fusca – G. hypoxantha – G. igata – G. inornata – G. insularis – G. levigaster – G. magnirostris – G. modesta – G. mouki – G. olivacea – G. palpebrosa – G. ruficollis – G. sulphurea – G. tenebrosa
Name
Gerygone Gould, 1841
References
Gould, J. 1841. A list of the birds of the Western coast, furnished by Mr Gould. In Grey, George 1841: Journals of two expeditions of discovery in North-West and Western Australia, during the years 1837, 38, and 39. T. & W. Boone, London, volume 2, Appendix D, pp. 415. ISBN 978-1-108-04360-1. Reference page.
Gerygone (/dʒəˈrɪɡəni/), the gerygones or peep-warblers, is a genus of bird in the family Acanthizidae. The genus ranges from Southeast Asia through New Guinea and Australia to New Zealand and the Chatham Islands. Most of the species are found in Australia and New Guinea; only one, the golden-bellied gerygone, has managed to cross Wallace's Line and colonise as far as Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines.
Gerygones are insectivores which obtain most of their food by gleaning and snatching in the foliage of trees and bushes. They are small, mostly weighing an average of 6–7 g, and show little variation in size across their range, except for the insular Chatham Islands gerygone, which is nearly twice as large as the rest of the genus.
Their songs are described as "simple but delightful", many descending in pitch, and some species are excellent mimics. "Gerygone" means "born of sound" (Magrath 2003).
Taxonomy
In 1838 the English ornithologist John Gould introduced the genus Psilopus in which he placed four species. He specified the type species as Psilopus albogularis. This is now considered to be a junior synonym of Gerygone olivacea, the white-throated gerygone, as Gerygone olivacea was listed earlier on the page in Gould's work.[2][3][4] In 1841, Gould, in a list of birds found on the western coast of Australia, added a note in which he replaced the name Psilopus with the name Gerygone as Psilopus had been previously employed in entomology by Johann Wilhelm Meigen.[5][6] The genus name Gerygone is from Ancient Greek gērugonos meaning "echoes".[7]
The genus contains 20 species including one which is now extinct:[8]
Brown gerygone, Gerygone mouki
Grey gerygone, Gerygone igata
Norfolk gerygone, Gerygone modesta
† Lord Howe gerygone, Gerygone insularis – extinct (c.1930)
Chatham Islands gerygone, Gerygone albofrontata
Fan-tailed gerygone, Gerygone flavolateralis
Rennell gerygone, Gerygone citrina – split from G. flavolateralis
Brown-breasted gerygone, Gerygone ruficollis
Golden-bellied gerygone, Gerygone sulphurea
Rufous-sided gerygone, Gerygone dorsalis
Mangrove gerygone, Gerygone levigaster
Plain gerygone, Gerygone inornata
Western gerygone, Gerygone fusca
Dusky gerygone, Gerygone tenebrosa
Large-billed gerygone, Gerygone magnirostris
Biak gerygone, Gerygone hypoxantha – previous a subspecies of G. magnirostris
Yellow-bellied gerygone, Gerygone chrysogaster
Green-backed gerygone, Gerygone chloronota
White-throated gerygone, Gerygone olivacea
Fairy gerygone, Gerygone palpebrosa
References
"Acanthizidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
Gould, John (1838). A Synopsis of the Birds of Australia, and the Adjacent Islands. London: self. Part 4, unpaginated.
Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds. (1986). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 11. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 444.
Dickinson, E.C.; Christidis, L., eds. (2014). The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. Vol. 2: Passerines (4th ed.). Eastbourne, UK: Aves Press. p. 165. ISBN 978-0-9568611-2-2.
Gould, John (1841). "A list of birds of the western coast". In Grey, George (ed.). Journals of two expeditions of discovery in north-west and western Australia, during the years 1837, 38, and 39, under the authority of her Majesty's Government, describing many newly discovered, important and fertile districts : with observations on the moral and physical condition of the aboriginal inhabitants. Vol. 2. London: T. & W. Boone. pp. 415–421 [417].
Meigen, Johann Wilhelm (1824). Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäischen zweiflügeligen Insekten. Vol. 4. Aachen: Schultz-Wundermann, Beaufort. p. 35.
Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 172. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2023). "Bristlebirds, pardalotes, Australasian warblers". World Bird List Version 13.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
Del Hoyo, J.; Elliot, A. & Christie D. (editors). (2006). Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 12: Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Lynx Edicions. ISBN 978-84-96553-42-2
Keast, A. & Recher, H. (1997) "The adaptive zone of the genus Gerygone (Acanthizidae) as shown by morphology and feeding habits." Emu 97(1): 1-17
Magrath, Robert. (2003). "Australian Warblers". In Perrins, Christopher (ed.). The Firefly Encyclopedia of Birds. Firefly Books. pp. 470–471. ISBN 1-55297-777-3.
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