Pachycephala: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Pachycephalidae
- Genus
- Pachycephala
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Pachycephala
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Pachycephala
Pachycephala is a genus of birds native to Oceania and Southeast Asia. They are commonly known as typical whistlers. Older guidebooks may refer to them as thickheads, a literal translation of the genus name, which is derived from Ancient Greek παχύς (pakhús), meaning "thick", and κεφαλή (kephalḗ), meaning "head". This lineage originated in Australo-Papua and later colonized the Indonesian and Philippine archipelagos to the west and the Pacific archipelagos to the east.
...Pachycephala in languages:
- Bokmål
- Typiske plystrere
- English
- Typical Whistlers
- English
- Thickheads
- German
- Echte Dickköpfe
- Japanese
- モズヒタキ属
- Russian
- Свистуны
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Parent Taxon
Child Taxa
- Pachycephala albiventris
- Pachycephala arctitorquis
- Pachycephala aurea
- Pachycephala balim
- Pachycephala caledonica
- Pachycephala chlorura
- Pachycephala cinerea
- Pachycephala citreogaster
- Pachycephala collaris
- Pachycephala feminina
- Pachycephala flavifrons
- Pachycephala fuliginosa
- Pachycephala fulvotincta
- Pachycephala griseonota
- Pachycephala homeyeri
- Pachycephala hyperythra
- Pachycephala hypoxantha
- Pachycephala implicata
- Pachycephala inornata
- Pachycephala jacquinoti
- Pachycephala lanioides
- Pachycephala leucogastra
- Pachycephala lorentzi
- Pachycephala macrorhyncha
- Pachycephala melanorhyncha
- Pachycephala melanura
- Pachycephala mentalis
- Pachycephala meyeri
- Pachycephala modesta
- Pachycephala monacha
- Pachycephala nudigula
- Pachycephala olivacea
- Pachycephala orioloides
- Pachycephala orpheus
- Pachycephala pectoralis
- Pachycephala phaionota
- Pachycephala philippinensis
- Pachycephala richardsi
- Pachycephala rufiventris
- Pachycephala rufogularis
- Pachycephala schlegelii
- Pachycephala simplex
- Pachycephala soror
- Pachycephala sulfuriventer
- Pachycephala tenebrosa
- Pachycephala vanikorensis
- Pachycephala vitiensis































































































































































