Wattled honeyeater

The wattled honeyeaters form a genus, Foulehaio, of birds in the honeyeater family Meliphagidae.

Wattled honeyeater
Polynesian wattled honeyeater (Foulehaio carunculatus)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Meliphagidae
Genus: Foulehaio
Reichenbach, 1852
Type species
Philemon musicus = Certhia carunculata
Vieillot, 1826
Species

3 recognized species, see article.

Taxonomy

The genus Foulehaio was introduced in 1852 by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach to accommodate a single species, the Polynesian wattled honeyeater, which is therefore considered as the type species.[1][2] The genus name is from the word in the Tongan language Foulehaio, Fuoulehaoi or Fulehau for the Polynesian wattled honeyeater. The word had been used for the Polynesian wattled honeyeater by Jean-Baptiste Audebert and Louis Vieillot in 1802.[3][4]

The genus contains three species:[5]

ImageScientific nameCommon nameDistribution
Foulehaio carunculatusPolynesian wattled honeyeaterAmerican Samoa, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, and Wallis and Futuna Islands
Foulehaio taviunensisFiji wattled honeyeaterFiji
Foulehaio proceriorKikauFiji

References
  1. Reichenbach, Ludwig (1852). Handbuch der speciellen Ornithologie: Continuo No. IX Meropinae (in German). Dresden und Leipzig: Expedition Vollständigsten Naturgeschichte. p. 110. For the publication date see: Dickinson, E.C.; Overstreet, L.K.; Dowsett, R.J.; Bruce, M.D. (2011). Priority! The Dating of Scientific Names in Ornithology: a Directory to the literature and its reviewers. Northampton, UK: Aves Press. p. 134. ISBN 978-0-9568611-1-5.
  2. Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1986). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 12. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 392.
  3. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 163. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  4. Audebert, J.B.; Vieillot, L.P. (1802). Oiseaux Dorés ou à Reflets Métalliques. Vol. 2: Histoire Naturelle et Général de Grimpeux et des Oiseaux de Paradis. Paris: Chez Desray. p. 131.
  5. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (January 2023). "Honeyeaters". IOC World Bird List Version 13,1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 25 March 2023.
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