''Mayrornis'' is a genus of
bird
Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweig ...
in the family
Monarchidae found in the
Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands is an island country consisting of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands in Oceania, to the east of Papua New Guinea and north-west of Vanuatu. It has a land area of , and a population of approx. 700,000. Its capit ...
and
Fiji. The name ''Mayrornis'' is a compound word. The first part, ''Mayr'', commemorates
Ernst Walter Mayr, a German
ornithologist and
systematist. The second part, ''ornis'', is the
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Greece
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
word meaning "bird".
Established by
Frank Alexander Wetmore in 1932, it contains the following species:
References
Bird genera
Taxa named by Alexander Wetmore
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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