Myzomela

Myzomela
Samoan myzomela
Myzomela nigriventris
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Meliphagidae
Genus: Myzomela
Vigors & Horsfield, 1827
Type species
Meliphaga cardinalis = Certhia sanguinolenta
Latham, 1801

Myzomela is a genus of bird in the honeyeater family Meliphagidae. It is the largest genus of honeyeaters, with 40 species, and the most geographically widespread. It ranges from Indonesia to Australia and into the islands of the Pacific Ocean as far as Micronesia and Samoa. Several species are named after the islands they were discovered or live on, and continued investigation is (as of March 2025) still increasing the number of species, both through discovery of new species (Babar myzomela M. babarensis) and conclusion that former subspecies are actually distinct species (Tanimbar myzomela M. annabellae).[1]

Taxonomy

The genus was introduced by the naturalists Nicholas Vigors and Thomas Horsfield in 1827 with Meliphaga cardinalis as the type species. This is a junior synonym of Certhia sanguinolenta Latham, 1801, the scarlet myzomela.[2][3]

The genus contained the following 41 species as of February 2025:[4]

ImageCommon nameScientific nameDistribution
Drab myzomelaMyzomela blasiimontane Seram, Boana (northwest of Seram) and Ambon (central east Moluccas)
White-chinned myzomelaMyzomela albigulaLouisiade Archipelago (east of southeast New Guinea)
Ashy myzomelaMyzomela cineraceaUmboi Island (west of New Britain) and New Britain (southeast Bismarck Archipelago)
Ruby-throated myzomelaMyzomela equesRaja Ampat Islands (northwest of New Guinea) and New Guinea
Moluccan myzomelaMyzomela simplexMorotai to Bacan Islands (north Moluccas)
Red-tinged myzomelaMyzomela rubrotinctaObi Islands and Bisa (central north Moluccas)
Biak myzomelaMyzomela rubrobrunneaBiak (Geelvink Bay islands, northwest New Guinea)
Dusky myzomelaMyzomela obscurasouth New Guinea and north, northeast Australia
Red myzomelaMyzomela cruentataNew Guinea and New Britain (southeast Bismarck Archipelago)
Reddish myzomelaMyzomela erythrinaNew Ireland and adjacent islands (northeast Bismarck Archipelago)
Papuan black myzomelaMyzomela nigritaNew Guinea
New Ireland myzomelaMyzomela pulchellamontane New Ireland (northeast Bismarck Archipelago)
Wetar myzomelaMyzomela kuehniWetar (east Lesser Sunda Islands)
Alor myzomelaMyzomela prawiradilagaemontane Alor Island (central east Lesser Sunda Islands)
Red-headed myzomelaMyzomela erythrocephalacoastal south New Guinea and north Australia
Sumba myzomelaMyzomela dammermaniSumba (central west Lesser Sunda Islands)
Rote myzomelaMyzomela irianawidodoaeRote Island (central east Lesser Sunda Islands)
Mountain myzomelaMyzomela adolphinaemontane Bird's Head Peninsula (northwest New Guinea), central north, central east, northeast (Huon Peninsula) and southeast New Guinea
Banda myzomelaMyzomela boieiBabar Islands (far east Lesser Sunda Islands) and south Moluccas
Taliabu myzomelaMyzomela waheTaliabu (Sula Islands, east of Sulawesi)
Sulawesi myzomelaMyzomela chloropteraSulawesi and satellites
Bacan myzomelaMyzomela batjanensismontane Bacan Islands (north Moluccas)
Wakolo myzomelaMyzomela wakoloensismontane Buru and Seram (central Moluccas)
Scarlet myzomelaMyzomela sanguinolentacentral east Queensland to south Victoria (east Australia)
New Caledonian myzomelaMyzomela caledonicaGrande Terre and Ile des Pins (New Caledonia)
Cardinal myzomelaMyzomela cardinalisMakira, Rennell Island, and Temotu (=Santa Cruz Islands; southeast Solomon Islands), Vanuatu, and Loyalty Islands
Samoan myzomelaMyzomela nigriventrisSavaii and Upolu (west Samoa) and Tutuila (west American Samoa, central Polynesia)
Rotuma myzomelaMyzomela chermesinaRotuma (far northwest Fiji, southwest Polynesia)
Micronesian myzomelaMyzomela rubratraMariana and Caroline Islands (Micronesia)
Sclater's myzomelaMyzomela sclateriKarkar Island (north of central north New Guinea) and islets off New Britain (southeast Bismarck Archipelago)
Bismarck black myzomelaMyzomela pammelaenaBismarck Archipelago including Admiralty Islands and islets to west
Red-capped myzomelaMyzomela lafargeiBuka Island to Isabel and satellites (north to central east Solomon Islands)
Crimson-rumped myzomelaMyzomela eichhorniNew Georgia group (central west Solomon Islands)
Red-vested myzomelaMyzomela malaitaemontane Malaita (southeast Solomon Islands)
Black-headed myzomelaMyzomela melanocephalaFlorida Islands, Savo Island (north of northwest Guadalcanal) and Guadalcanal (central south Solomon Islands)
Sooty myzomelaMyzomela tristramiMakira, Ugi Island (off northwest Makira) and Santa Catalina (or Owariki) and Owaraha (Santa Ana) (off southeast Makira; southeast Solomon Islands)
Sulphur-breasted myzomelaMyzomela jugularisFiji (southwest Polynesia)
Black-bellied myzomelaMyzomela erythromelasNew Britain (southeast Bismarck Archipelago)
Black-breasted myzomelaMyzomela vulnerataTimor (east Lesser Sunda Islands)
Red-collared myzomelaMyzomela rosenbergiimontane New Guinea
Long-billed myzomelaMyzomela longirostrismontane Goodenough Island (D'Entrecasteaux Archipelago, east of southeast New Guinea)

References

  1. ↑ Berryman, Alex J.; Spencer, Andrew J.; Sharma, Puja; Eaton, James A. (2025). "A taxonomic revision of Banda Myzomela Myzomela boiei (S. Müller 1843), including the description of a new species from Babar Island, Indonesia". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 145 (1): 35–48. doi:10.25226/bboc.v145i1.2025.a4.
  2. ↑ Vigors, Nicholas Aylward; Horsfield, Thomas (1826). "Australian birds in the collection of the Linnean Society; with an attempt at arranging them according to their natural affinities" (PDF). Transactions of the Linnean Society of London (in English and Latin). 15 (1) (published 1827): 170–334 [316]. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1826.tb00115.x.
  3. ↑ Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1986). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 12. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 350.
  4. ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (February 2025). "Honeyeaters". IOC World Bird List Version 15.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 27 March 2025.
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