Asity
| Asities | |
|---|---|
| Yellow-bellied sunbird-asity | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Superfamily: | Eurylaimoidea |
| Family: | Philepittidae Sharpe, 1870 |
| Genera | |
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Philepitta | |
The asities are a family of birds, Philepittidae, that are endemic to Madagascar. The asities consist of four species in two genera. The Neodrepanis species are known as sunbird-asities and were formerly known as false sunbirds.
Philepitta is now the type-genus of a new bird family, the Philepittidae, into which the asities of Madagascar have been placed.
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