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The splendid fairywren (Malurus splendens) is a passerine bird in the Australasian wren family, ... Within the genus it is most closely related to the superb fairywren.
Superb fairywren: Australia and lowland New Guinea Malurus splendens: Splendid fairywren: Central and Western Australia Malurus coronatus: Purple-crowned fairywren: Northern Australia Malurus alboscapulatus: White-shouldered fairywren: New Guinea Malurus melanocephalus: Red-backed fairywren: Australia Malurus leucopterus: White-winged fairywren
The superb fairywren is one of eleven species of the genus Malurus, commonly known as fairywrens, found in Australia and lowland New Guinea. [3] Within the genus, the superb fairywren's closest relative is the splendid fairywren; these two "blue wrens" are also related to the purple-crowned fairywren of northwestern Australia.
Within the genus it is most closely related to the splendid fairywren and superb fairywren. [9] [10] It is also sometimes placed as a sister to clade including the two "blue wrens" along with the white-shouldered fairywren, white-winged fairywren, and the red-backed fairywren, also called the bicoloured wrens. [10] [11]
A 2011 analysis of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA found the broad-billed fairywren and Campbell's fairywren, both formerly lumped together in the genus Malurus, to lie in a clade with the two other monospecific New Guinea genera and as such, they were later re-classified as separate species within the genus Chenorhamphus. [5]
The splendid fairy-wren (Malurus splendens), also known simply as the splendid wren or more colloquially in Western Australia as the blue wren, is a passerine bird of the family Maluridae. It is found across much of the Australian continent from central-western New South Wales and southwestern Queensland over to coastal Western Australia. The ...
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Within the genus it belongs to a group of four very similar species known collectively as chestnut-shouldered fairywrens. The other three species are the lovely fairywren, the variegated fairywren, and the blue-breasted fairywren. [9] Molecular study showed the blue-breasted fairywren to be the most closely related to the red-winged fairywren. [10]