Cormobates | |
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White-throated treecreeper (Cormobates leucophaea) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Climacteridae |
Genus: | Cormobates Mathews, 1922 |
Type species | |
Certhia leucophaea[1] Latham, 1801
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Cormobates is a genus of bird in the Australasian treecreeper family. Its scientific name means ‘trunk-creeper’, from the Greek cormos (κορµός, ‘tree trunk’)[2] and bates (βάτης, ‘one who treads’).[3][4]
It contains the following species:
Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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Cormobates leucophaea | White-throated treecreeper | eastern Australia | |
Cormobates placens | Papuan treecreeper | New Guinea. |
Gr. kormos tree-trunk, log; batēs treader, walker (bainō to tread).