Chenorhamphus | |
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Chenorhamphus grayi | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Maluridae |
Genus: | Chenorhamphus Oustalet, 1878 |
Type species | |
Chenorhamphus cyanopectus[1] Oustalet, 1878
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Species | |
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Chenorhamphus is a genus of birds in the Australasian wren family, Maluridae.
The species of the genus Chenorhamphus were formerly classified in the genus Malurus until a 2011 analysis of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA showed high divergence between the two taxa resulting in them being re-split into separate species. The study also found them to lie in a separate clade with the genera Sipodotus and Clytomyias and distinct from the genus Malurus. This led to the subsequent re-classification of the species into their own genus, Chenorhamphus.[2]
The genus contains two species:[3]
Extant Maluridae species | |||||||||||||||
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Subfamily Malurinae |
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Subfamily Amytornithinae |
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