Eopsaltria

Taxobox
name = "Eopsaltria"


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image_caption = Eastern Yellow Robin,
Australian National Botanic Gardens
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Petroicidae
genus = "Eopsaltria"
genus_authority = Swainson, 1832

"Eopsaltria" is a genus of small forest passerines known in Australia as the "Yellow Robins". They belong to the family Petroicidae. The name is derived from the Greek for "dawn singer/song". Previously the two members of the genus "Tregellasia" were included in this genus; the Pale-yellow Robin, "Tregellasia capito" and White-faced Robin, "T. leucops".Another species the Mangrove Robin "Peneoenanthe pulverulenta" is often included in this genus.

pecies

* Eastern Yellow Robin, "Eopsaltria australis"
* Western Yellow Robin, "Eopsaltria griseogularis"
* White-breasted Robin, "Eopsaltria georgiana"
* Yellow-bellied Robin, "Eopsaltria flaviventris"

References

* Del Hoyo, J.; Elliot, A. & Christie D. (editors). (2007). "Handbook of the Birds of the World". Volume 12: Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Lynx Edicions. ISBN 9788496553422