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The superb fairywren (Malurus cyaneus) is a passerine bird in the Australasian wren family, Maluridae, and is common and familiar across south-eastern Australia. It is a sedentary and territorial species, also exhibiting a high degree of sexual dimorphism; the male in breeding plumage has a striking bright blue forehead, ear coverts, mantle, and tail, with a black mask and black or dark blue ...
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
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]
Superb fairywren; V. Variegated fairywren; W. White-shouldered fairywren; White-winged fairywren This page was last edited on 28 April 2019, at 21:18 (UTC). Text ...
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]
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] Broad-billed fairywren (Chenorhamphus grayi) Campbell's fairywren ...
The superb fairy-wren (Malurus cyaneus), also known as superb blue-wren or colloquially as blue wren, is a passerine bird of the family Maluridae. Sedentary and territorial, it is found across southeastern Australia. The male in breeding plumage has a striking bright blue forehead, ear coverts, mantle and tail with a black mask and black or ...
This list is based on the 1996 classification by Sibley and ... Superb fairywren, Malurus cyaneus; ... The Orthonychidae is a family of birds with a single genus, ...