| Mino | |
|---|---|
| |
| Yellow-faced Myna | |
Scientific classification 
| |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Inopinaves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Suborder: | Passeri |
| Superfamily: | Muscicapoidea |
| Clade: | Starling clade |
| Family: | Sturnidae |
| Subfamily: | Graculinae |
| Tribe: | Graculini |
| Genus: | Mino Lesson, 1827 |
| species | |
| |
Mino is a genus of mynas, birds in the starling family. These are the largest of the starlings, and are found in tropical moist lowland forests in Papua New Guinea and neighbouring islands. The members of the genus are:
- Golden Myna, Mino anais
- Yellow-faced Myna, Mino dumontii
- Long-tailed Myna, Mino kreffti
The Long-tailed Myna was formerly considered a subspecies of the Yellow-faced Myna.
References[]
- Feare, Chris; Craig, Adrian (1999). Starlings and Mynas. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-7136-3961-X. Cite uses deprecated parameter
|coauthors=(help)
|
This article is part of Project Bird Genera, a All Birds project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each genus, including made-up genera. |
| This page uses Creative Commons Licensed content from Wikipedia (view authors). Please help by writing it in the style of All Birds Wiki! |