Myzomela

Myzomela
Sulphur-breasted myzomela
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Meliphagidae
Genus:	Myzomela Vigors & Horsfield, 1827

Myzomela is a genus of bird in the honeyeater family Meliphagidae. It is the largest genus of honeyeaters, with 31 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.

It contains the following species:^[1]

• Mountain myzomela (Myzomela adolphinae)
• White-chinned myzomela (Myzomela albigula)
• Drab myzomela (Myzomela blasii)
• Banda myzomela (Myzomela boiei)
• New Caledonian myzomela (Myzomela caledonica)
• Cardinal myzomela (Myzomela cardinalis)
• Rotuma myzomela (Myzomela chermesina)
• Sulawesi myzomela (Myzomela chloroptera)
• Ashy myzomela (Myzomela cineracea)
• Red myzomela (Myzomela cruentata)
• Sumba myzomela (Myzomela dammermani)
• Crimson-rumped myzomela (Myzomela eichhorni)
• Ruby-throated myzomela (Myzomela eques)
• Red-headed myzomela (Myzomela erythrocephala)
• Black-bellied myzomela (Myzomela erythromelas)

Male scarlet myzomela

• Sulphur-breasted myzomela (Myzomela jugularis)
• Crimson-hooded myzomela (Myzomela kuehni)
• Red-capped myzomela (Myzomela lafargei)
• Red-vested myzomela (Myzomela malaitae)
• Black-headed myzomela (Myzomela melanocephala)
• Papuan black myzomela (Myzomela nigrita)
• Dusky myzomela (Myzomela obscura)
• Bismarck black myzomela (Myzomela pammelaena)
• New Ireland myzomela (Myzomela pulchella)
• Red-collared myzomela (Myzomela rosenbergii)
• Micronesian myzomela (Myzomela rubratra)
• Scarlet myzomela (Myzomela sanguinolenta)
• Sclater's myzomela (Myzomela sclateri)
• Sooty myzomela (Myzomela tristrami)
• Black-breasted myzomela (Myzomela vulnerata)
• Wakolo myzomela (Myzomela wakoloensis)

References

• W.A. Forbes. A Synopsis of tlie Meliphagine Genus Mijzomela, with Descriptions of two new Species.; Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1879, 181–218