Black Honeyeater / Sugomel nigrum

Black Honeyeater / Sugomel nigrum

Black Honeyeater

SCI Name:  Sugomel nigrum
Protonym:  Myzomela nigra BirdsAustr.Adj.Isl. pt2 pl.8
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Meliphagidae /
Taxonomy Code:  blahon1
Type Locality:  New South Wales.
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Publish Year:  1838
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DEFINITIONS

SUGOMEL
(Meliphagidae; Ϯ Black Honeyeater S. nigrum) Gr. συγ- sug-  together, akin < συγγινομαι sunginomai  to associate with; genus Myzomela, Vigors & Horsfield, 1827, myzomela (cf. L. sugere  to suck; mel  honey); "SUGOMEL gen. nov.  Type Myzomela nigra ashby Mathews." (Mathews 1922).
Var. Sugamel.