The Key to Scientific Names
Edited by James A. Jobling
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- Irenella
(Irenidae; syn. Irena † Philippine Fairy-bluebird I. cyanogastra) Dim. < genus Irena Horsfield, 1821, fairy-bluebird; "The genus Irena, however, as given in Sharpe's Hand-List, vol. 3, 1901, pp. 308-309, naturally divides into two sections, for the first of which I propose Irenella, gen. nov. Type, Irena cyanogastra Vigors. Upper and under tail-coverts short, less than half the length of tail, the mantle with normal feathers, the sexes similar" (Riley 1927); "Irenella Riley, 1927, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 40, p. 23. Type, by original designation, Irena cyanogastra Vigors." (JAJ 2021).
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