Cormobates

Cormobates is a genus of bird in the Australasian treecreeper family. Its scientific name means ‘trunk-creeper’, from the Greek cormos (κορµός, ‘tree trunk’)[1] and bates (βάτης, ‘one who treads’).[2][3]

Cormobates
White-throated treecreeper (Cormobates leucophaea)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Climacteridae
Genus: Cormobates
Mathews, 1922

It contains the following species:

ImageScientific nameCommon NameDistribution
Cormobates leucophaeaWhite-throated treecreepereastern Australia
Cormobates placensPapuan treecreeperNew Guinea.


References

  1. "cormo-". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
  2. βάτης. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project: ‘one that treads or covers’
  3. 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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