Genus of birds
Caligavis is a genus of honeyeaters endemic to New Guinea and Australia. It includes former members of "Lichenostomus", and was created after a molecular phylogenetic analysis published in 2011 showed that the original genus was polyphyletic.
Species.
The genus contains three species:
The name "Caligavis" was first proposed by the English-born ornithologist Tom Iredale in 1956. The word is derived from the Latin "caligo" meaning obscurity and "avis" bird.
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