Meliphagidae (Honeyeaters)

P J Higgins; L Christidis; Hugh Alastair Ford

Meliphagidae (Honeyeaters)

P J Higgins
, L Christidis
, Hugh Alastair Ford

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The honeyeaters (Meliphagidae) comprise one of the most characteristic, numerous, speciose and widespread components of the Australo-Papuan bird fauna. Although centred in Australia and New Guinea, the group has outliers westwards to the Moluccas and Bali, north to the Northern Mariana Islands and Micronesia, and east through New Zealand and the south-western Pacific to Samoa and Tahiti. Two recently extinct genera, 'Moho' and 'Chaetoptila', once thought to have been honeyeaters but apparently unrelated to the Meliphagidae, occurred in the Hawaiian Islands. Excluding the Hawaiian species, there are at least 42 genera and 175 species in the family as currently constituted.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Handbook of the Birds of the World
Editors	Josep del Hoyo, Andrew Elliott, David Christie
Place of Publication	Barcelona, Spain
Publisher	Lynx Edicions
Pages	498-691
Volume	13: Penduline-tits to Shrikes
Edition	1
ISBN (Print)	8496553450, 9788496553453
Publication status	Published - 2008

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