Mayrornis is a genus of bird in the Monarchidae family. Established by Frank Alexander Wetmore in 1932, it contains the following species: \n* Slaty monarch (Mayrornis lessoni) \n* Vanikoro monarch (Mayrornis schistaceus) \n* Versicolored monarch (Mayrornis versicolor) The name Mayrornis is a compound word. The first part, Mayr, commemorates Ernst Walter Mayr, a German ornithologist and systematist. The second part, ornis, is the Greek word meaning "bird".
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0