Genus of birds
Phylidonyris is a genus of birds in the honeyeater family that are endemic to Australia.
Taxonomy.
The genus "Phylidonyris" was introduced in 1830 by the French naturalist René Lesson to accommodate a single species, "Certhia novaehollandiae" Latham, 1790, now the New Holland honeyeater ("Phylidonyris novaehollandiae"). The generic name "Phylidonyris" combines the term "Phylédon" or "Philédon", used by the French naturalist Georges Cuvier in 1817 for the friarbirds (now placed in the genus "Philemon"), with "Cinnyris" (Cuvier, 1816) for the sunbirds.
The genus contains the following three species:
References.
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