Climacteris
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Genus of birds
| Climacteris | |
|---|---|
| Brown treecreeper (Climacteris picumnus) | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Climacteridae |
| Genus: | Climacteris Temminck, 1820 |
| Type species | |
| Climacteris picumnus [1] Temminck, 1824
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| Synonyms | |
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Whitlocka G. M. Mathews, 1912. | |
Climacteris is a genus of bird in the family Climacteridae. These birds and the other members of the family, genus Cormobates , are similar to Northern Hemisphere creepers, Certhiidae, in climbing helically up tree trunks looking for insect food. Differences from Cormobates are
- Climacteris species have black, slightly downcurved bills.
- They have a rusty chest stripe in the female. (In Cormobates the female is marked on the face.)
- They have simple vocal repertoires that are the same for both sexes.
- They lay heavily marked pinkish eggs (Simpson and Day 1999).
- They are cooperative breeders; male offspring of previous broods and sometimes other individuals help breeding pairs (Doerr, 2003).
It contains the following species:
| Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Climacteris affinis | White-browed treecreeper | Australia. | |
| Climacteris erythrops | Red-browed treecreeper | Australia | |
| Climacteris picumnus | Brown treecreeper | Cape York, Queensland, throughout New South Wales and Victoria to Port Augusta and the Flinders Ranges, South Australia | |
| Climacteris melanurus | Black-tailed treecreeper | north and northwestern Australia | |
| Climacteris rufus | Rufous treecreeper | Australia. |
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The Australian author G. M. Mathews published new generic names in 1912, based on characteristics that distinguished two species from this genus,
- Whitlocka, to describe the black-tailed northwestern species, Climacteris melanurus . The generic epithet honoured the ornithologist F. Lawson Whitlock.[2]
- Neoclima, assigning the species Climacteris picumnus, brown treecreeper, of Temminck as the type.[3]
References
[edit ]- ^ "Climacteridae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023年07月16日.
- ^ whitlocka Jobling, J. A. (2018). Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology. In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.) (2018). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. (retrieved from www.hbw.com on 21 July 2018).
- ^ neoclima Jobling, J. A. (2018). Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology. In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.) (2018). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. (retrieved from www.hbw.com on 21 July 2018).
Further reading
[edit ]- Doerr, V. A. J. (2003). "Australasian Treecreepers (Climacteridae)". In Christopher Perrins (ed.). The New Encyclopedia of Birds. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-852506-0.
- Peterson, Alan P. (Editor). 1999. Zoological Nomenclature Resource (Zoonomen). Accessed 2007年08月30日.
- Simpson, Ken; Day, Nicolas (1999). Birds of Australia . Princeton University Press. pp. 369–370. ISBN 0-691-04995-5 . Retrieved 2007年08月30日.
