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Cormobates

Cormobates is a genus of bird in the Australasian treecreeper family. Its scientific name means ‘trunk-creeper’, from the Greek cormos and bates.

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Cormobates
White-throated treecreeper (Cormobates leucophaea)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Climacteridae
Genus: Cormobates
Mathews, 1922
Type species
Certhia leucophaea1
Latham, 1801

Cormobates is a genus of bird in the Australasian treecreeper family. Its scientific name means ‘trunk-creeper’, from the Greek cormos (κορµός, ‘tree trunk’)2 and bates (βάτης, ‘one who treads’).34

It contains the following species:

Image Scientific name Common name Distribution
Cormobates leucophaea White-throated treecreeper eastern Australia
Cormobates placens Papuan treecreeper New Guinea.
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References

  1. "Climacteridae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
  2. "cormo-". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
  3. βάτης. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project: ‘one that treads or covers’
  4. Jobling, James A. (2010). Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. A & C Black. p. 118. ISBN 978-1-4081-2878-7. Gr. kormos tree-trunk, log; batēs treader, walker (bainō to tread).