Gavicalis is a genus of honeyeaters endemic to New Guinea and Australia.

It contains former members of Lichenostomus, and was created after a molecular phylogenetic analysis published in 2011 showed that the original genus was polyphyletic.

[2] The genus contains three species:[3] The name Gavicalis was first proposed by the Australian ornithologists Richard Schodde and Ian Mason in 1999.

[4] The word is an anagram of Caligavis introduced by Tom Iredale.

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