language-icon Old Web
English
Sign In

Drymodes

Drymodes is a genus of bird in the family Petroicidae. It was traditionally held to have two species, but molecular and behavioural differences led to the split of the New Guinea populations from the northern scrub robin. The paper by Les Christidis and colleagues was published in 2011 and the IOC adopted the split in 2015: The genus contains the following three species:

[ "Ornithology", "Ecology" ]
Parent Topic
Child Topic
    No Parent Topic