| Boatbills | |
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| Machaerirhynchus flaviventer | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Inopinaves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Suborder: | Passeri |
| Infraorder: | Corvida |
| Superfamily: | Malaconotoidea |
| Family: | Machaerirhynchidae Schodde and Mason, 1999 |
| Genus: | Machaerirhynchus Gould, 1851 |
| Synonyms | |
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Artamidae (under Machaerirhynchinae) | |
Machaerirhynchus is a genus and family of passerine birds in the family Machaerirhynchidae. The two species are known as boatbills. The genus is distributed across New Guinea and northern Queensland.
The species are:
- Black-breasted Boatbill, Machaerirhynchus nigripectus, found in New Guinea
- Yellow-breasted Boatbill, Machaerirhynchus flaviventer, found in northeast Australia
Taxonomy[]
Boatbills have been bounced around, they were once found in Dicruridae, next to the monarch flycatchers (Sibley and Ahlquist, 1990; Sibley and Monroe, 1990).[1][2]
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