Wallace's fairywren
| Wallace's fairywren | |
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| Illustration (bird below) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Maluridae |
| Genus: | Sipodotus Mathews, 1928 |
| Species: | S. wallacii |
| Binomial name | |
| Sipodotus wallacii Gray, 1862 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Todopsis wallacii | |
The Wallace's fairywren (Sipodotus wallacii) is a species of bird in the Maluridae family. It is monotypic within the genus Sipodotus.[2] It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, where its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.[2]
It is named after Alfred Russel Wallace, a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, and biologist.[3]
References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Sipodotus wallacii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- 1 2 "ITIS Report: Todopsis". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
- ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 357–358.
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