Pygmy Drongo

Pygmy Drongo
Pygmy Drongo
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: see text
Genus: Chaetorhynchus
A.B. Meyer, 1874
Species: C. papuensis
Binomial name
Chaetorhynchus papuensis
Meyer, 1874

The Pygmy Drongo (Chaetorhynchus papuensis) is a species of bird endemic to the island of New Guinea. It is monotypic within the genus Chaetorhynchus.[citation needed] 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.[1]

References

  1. ^ Irested, Martin; Fuchs J; Jønsson KA; Ohlson JI; Pasquet E & Per G.P. Ericson (2009). "The systematic affinity of the enigmatic Lamprolia victoriae (Aves: Passeriformes)—An example of avian dispersal between New Guinea and Fiji over Miocene intermittent land bridges?". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 48 (3): 1218–1222. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2008.05.038. PMID 18620871. http://www.nrm.se/download/18.7d9d550411abf68c801800012645/Irestedt%2Bet%2Bal%2BLamprolia.pdf. 

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