Cormobates
White-throated treecreeper (Cormobates leucophaea)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Climacteridae
Genus: Cormobates
Mathews, 1922
Type species
Certhia leucophaea[1]
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’).[3][4]

It contains the following species:

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


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).


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