Biology:Drongo fantail

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Short description: Species of bird

Drongo fantail
Chaetorhynchus papuensis - The Birds of New Guinea (cropped).jpg
Illustration by John Gould and W. Hart
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Rhipiduridae
Subfamily: Lamproliinae
Genus: Chaetorhynchus
A.B. Meyer, 1874
Species:
C. papuensis
Binomial name
Chaetorhynchus papuensis
Meyer, 1874

The drongo fantail (Chaetorhynchus papuensis), formerly known as the pygmy drongo, is a species of passerine bird endemic to the island of New Guinea. It is the only species in the genus Chaetorhynchus.[2] The species was long placed within the drongo family Dicruridae, but it differs from others in that family in having twelve rectrices instead of ten. Molecular analysis also supports moving the species out from the drongo family, instead placing it as a sister species to the silktail of Fiji, and both those species in the fantail family Rhipiduridae.[3]

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External links

Wikidata ☰ Q1587620 entry