NOAA National Benthic Inventory

Taxonomy and Nomenclature

Kingdom: Animalia
Rank: Genus

Taxonomic Status

Current Standing: valid
Credibility Rating: TWG standards met
Global Species Completeness: complete
Latest Record Review: 2006

Taxonomic Heirarchy

  Family - Meliphagidae
  Order - Passeriformes
  Class - Aves
  Superclass - Tetrapoda
  Infraphylum - Gnathostomata
  Subphylum - Vertebrata
  Phylum - Chordata
  Infrakingdom - Deuterostomia
  Subkingdom - Bilateria
  Kingdom - Animalia

      Direct Children

      Species - Melidectes belfordi
      Species - Melidectes foersteri
      Species - Melidectes fuscus
      Species - Melidectes leucostephes
      Species - Melidectes nouhuysi
      Species - Melidectes ochromelas
      Species - Melidectes princeps
      Species - Melidectes rufocrissalis
      Species - Melidectes torquatus
      Species - Melidectes whitemanensis