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Sahul brush cuckoo
Cacomantis variolosus · Family Cuculidae
Cacomantis variolosus
Family Cuculidae
- Order
- Cuculiformes
- Family
- Cuculidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 120,290
- Countries and territories with records
- 11
About this species
This species has 120,290 occurrence records from 11 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Australia (80.8%), Indonesia (8.4%), the Philippines (3.8%), Papua New Guinea (3.3%) and Malaysia (1.4%); together they account for 97.7% of the total. In Australia, this species accounts for 0.089% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Cacomantis variolosus combines the genus name Cacomantis with the species epithet variolosus. The Warbla app catalog lists 8 species of the genus Cacomantis; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Cacomantis flabelliformis, Cacomantis merulinus and Cacomantis passerinus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 144 species of the family Cuculidae. This species ranks 24th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Cuculus canorus. Its record count is 1.3 times the family average (90,374). The family Cuculidae belongs to the order Cuculiformes, which has 146 species in the Warbla app catalog.