Sugomel | |
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Sugomel nigrum | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Meliphagidae |
Genus: |
Sugomel Mathews, 1922 |
Type species | |
Myzomela nigra
[1] Gould, 1838
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Species | |
Sugomel is a genus of bird in the honeyeater family Meliphagidae. [2]
It contains two species, one native to Australia and the other endemic to the Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia:
Prior to 2022, the black honeyeater was considered the only species in the genus, but the International Ornithological Congress reclassified S. lombokius (formerly in Lichmera) into Sugomel based on a phylogenetic analysis finding it to be the sister species to S. niger. [2]