Basilornis: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Sturnidae
- Genus
- Basilornis
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Basilornis
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Basilornis
Basilornis is a genus of mynas in the family Sturnidae. Established by Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1850, it contains the following species:
- Sulawesi myna (Basilornis celebensis)
- Long-crested myna (Basilornis corythaix)
- Helmeted myna (Basilornis galeatus)
The Apo myna was formerly included in this genus, but has since been transferred to the monotypic genus Goodfellowia.
The name Basilornis is a combination of the Greek words basileus, meaning "king" and ornis, meaning "bird".
...Basilornis in languages:
- Bokmål
- Hjelmstærer
- English
- Helmeted Mynas
- English
- Basilornis Mynas
- Finnish
- kuningaskottaraiset
Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Acridotheres
- Agropsar
- Ampeliceps
- Aplonis
- Arizelopsar
- Basilornis
- Cinnyricinclus
- Creatophora
- Cryptopsar
- Enodes
- Fregilupus
- Goodfellowia
- Gracula
- Gracupica
- Grafisia
- Hartlaubius
- Hylopsar
- Lamprotornis
- Leucopsar
- Mino
- Necropsar
- Neocichla
- Notopholia
- Onychognathus
- Pastor
- Pholia
- Poeoptera
- Rhabdornis
- Sarcops
- Saroglossa
- Scissirostrum
- Speculipastor
- Spodiopsar
- Streptocitta
- Sturnia
- Sturnornis
- Sturnus