Anthochaera

Of the five species in the genus only the yellow wattlebird (Anthochaera paradoxa) and the red wattlebird (A. carunculata) have the wattles of their common name.{{cite book| last1=Higgins | first1=P. | last2=Christidis | first2=L. | author2-link=Leslie Christidis | last3=Ford | first3=H. | last4=Bonan | first4=A. | year=2008 | chapter=Honeyeaters (Meliphagidae) | editor1-last=del Hoyo | editor1-first=J. | editor2-last=Elliott | editor2-first=A. | editor3-last=Sargatal | editor3-first=J. | editor4-last=Christie | editor4-first=D.A. | editor5-last=de Juana | editor5-first=E. | title=Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive | publisher=Lynx Edicions | doi=10.2173/bow.meliph3.01 | s2cid=241635246 | chapter-url=http://www.hbw.com/node/52353 | access-date=23 January 2017 | chapter-url-access=subscription }} These are bare fleshy appendages, usually wrinkled and often brightly coloured, hanging from the cheeks, neck or throat, and presumably serving for display.

A common name for species of the genus is wattlebird, a term also used for unrelated avian species.

The genus Anthochaera was introduced in 1827 by the naturalists Nicholas Aylward Vigors and Thomas Horsfield.{{ cite journal | last1=Vigors | first1=N.A. | author1-link=Nicholas Aylward Vigors | last2=Horsfield | first2=T. | author2-link=Thomas Horsfield | year=1826 | title=A description of the Australian birds in the collection of the Linnean Society; with an attempt at arranging them according to their natural affinities (Part 1) | journal=Transactions of the Linnean Society of London | volume=15 | issue=1 | pages=170–331 [320–321] | doi=10.1111/j.1095-8339.1826.tb00115.x | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/778569 }} The title page gives the year as 1826 but the issue was not published until 1827. The name is derived from the Greek anthos meaning flower or bloom and khairō meaning to enjoy.{{cite book | last= Jobling | first= J.A. | year= 2010| title= The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | url= https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling | publisher=Christopher Helm | location = London | isbn = 978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=[https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling/page/n49 49] }} The type species was designated as the little wattlebird by the German ornithologist Hans Friedrich Gadow in 1884.{{ cite book | last1=Gadow | first1=Hans | author-link1=Hans Friedrich Gadow | year=1884 | title=Catalogue of the Passeriformes or Perching Birds in the Collection of the British Museum | volume=9 Cinnyrimorphae: containing the families Nectariniidae and Meliphagidae (Sun-birds and Honey-eaters) | publisher=Trustees of the British Museum |location=London | page=262 | series=Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8306530 }}{{ cite book | last=Salomonsen | first=F. | year=1967 | chapter=Family Maliphagidae, Honeyeaters | editor-last=Paynter | editor1-first=R.A. Jnr. | title=Check-list of birds of the world (Volume 12) | volume=12 | place=Cambridge, Mass. | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology | pages=338–450 [444–445] | chapter-url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14482561 }}

The regent honeyeater (Anthochaera phrygia) was formerly placed in its own genus, Xanthomyza, but placed with the Anthochaera genus in a 2004 molecular phylogenetic study.{{ cite journal | last1=Driskell | first1=A.C. | last2=Christidis | first2=L. | author2-link=Leslie Christidis | year=2004 | title=Phylogeny and evolution of the Australo-Papuan honeyeaters (Passeriformes, Meliphagidae) | journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | volume=31 | issue=3 | pages=943–960 | doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2003.10.017 | pmid=15120392 | bibcode=2004MolPE..31..943D }} The genus Anthochaera is sister group to the species Acanthagenys rufogularis, the spiny-cheeked honeyeater, separated as a monotypic genus.{{ cite journal | last1=Marki | first1=P.Z. | last2=Jønsson | first2=K.A. | last3=Irestedt | first3=M. | last4=Nguyen | first4=J.M. | last5=Rahbek | first5=C. | last6=Fjeldså | first6=C. | year=2017 | title=Supermatrix phylogeny and biogeography of the Australasian Meliphagides radiation (Aves: Passeriformes) | journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | volume=107 | pages=516–529 | doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2016.12.021 | pmid=28017855 | bibcode=2017MolPE.107..516M | hdl=10852/65203 | hdl-access=free }}

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The genus Anthochaera contains the following species:{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | title=Honeyeaters | work= World Bird List Version 5.4 | url= http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/honeyeaters/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union| access-date= 26 December 2015 }}

• List of Australian birds

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• [http://ibc.lynxeds.com/family/honeyeaters-meliphagidae Wattlebird videos] on the Internet Bird Collection

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Category:Endemic birds of Australia

Category:Bird genera

Category:Taxa named by Thomas Horsfield

Category:Taxa named by Nicholas Aylward Vigors