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The Australian rufous fantail was first described by Latham in his 1801 work, Index Ornithologicus initially as Muscicapa rufifrons. [7] It was later reclassified into the genus Rhipidura by Vigors and Horsfield. [8] The Australian rufous fantail's scientific name is consequently Rhipidura rufifrons.
The Solomons rufous fantail was formally described in 1879 by the Australian ornithologist Edward Pierson Ramsay based on a specimen that had been collected by James F. Cockerell on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. Ramsay coined the binomial name Rhissidura rufofronta (with the genus name Rhipidura misspelled).
The Micronesian rufous fantail was formally described in 1872 by the German ornithologists Gustav Hartlaub and Otto Finsch based on specimens collected by the Polish naturalist John Stanislaw Kubary on the island of Yap in Micronesia. They placed it with the fantails in the genus Rhipidura and coined the binomial name Rhipidura versicolor.
Fantails are small insectivorous songbirds of the genus Rhipidura in the family Rhipiduridae, native to Australasia, Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent.Most of the species are about 15 to 18 cm (5.9 to 7.1 in) long, specialist aerial feeders, and named as "fantails", but the Australian willie wagtail is a little larger, and, though still an expert hunter of insects on the wing ...
The rufous-tailed fantail (Rhipidura phoenicura) is a species of bird in the family Rhipiduridae. It is endemic to Java in Indonesia . Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests .
The rufous-backed fantail (Rhipidura rufidorsa) is a species of bird in the family Rhipiduridae. It is found in New Guinea . Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests .
This list's taxonomic treatment (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (English and scientific names) are those of The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, 2022 edition. [2] The following tags have been used to highlight several categories of occurrence.
The Louisiade fantail (Rhipidura louisiadensis) is a species of bird in the family Rhipiduridae that is endemic to the D'Entrecasteaux Islands and the Louisiade Archipelago to the east of New Guinea. This species was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the Australian rufous fantail ( Rhipidura rufifrons ).