Broad-billed fairywren

The broad-billed fairywren (Chenorhamphus grayi) is a species of bird in the Australasian wren family, Maluridae. It is found in northern and north-western New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Broad-billed fairywren
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Maluridae
Genus: Chenorhamphus
Species:
C. grayi
Binomial name
Chenorhamphus grayi
(Wallace, 1862)
Synonyms
  • Todopsis grayi
  • Malurus grayi

Taxonomy and systematics

The broad-billed fairywren was originally described in the obsolete genus Todopsis. It was formerly lumped together with Campbell's fairywren in the genus Malurus until a 2011 analysis of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA showed high divergence between the two subspecies resulting in them being re-split into separate species. The study also found them to lie in a clade with the genera Sipodotus and Clytomyias leading to their subsequent re-classification in their own genus, Chenorhamphus.[2][3] Alternate names for the broad-billed fairywren include broad-billed wren and broad-billed wren-warbler.

References
  1. BirdLife International (2017). "Chenorhamphus grayi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T22703715A118652681. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T22703715A118652681.en.
  2. Driskell, Amy C.; Norman, Janette A.; Pruett-Jones, Stephen; Mangall, Elizabeth; Sonsthagen, Sarah; Christidis, Les (2011). "A multigene phylogeny examining evolutionary and ecological relationships in the Australo-papuan wrens of the subfamily Malurinae (Aves)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 60: 480–85. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2011.03.030. PMID 21466855.
  3. "Taxonomy Version 2 « IOC World Bird List". www.worldbirdnames.org. Retrieved 2017-11-14.


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