Arafura Fantail

Taxobox
name = Arafura Fantail


status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Rhipiduridae
genus = "Rhipidura"
species = "R. dryas"
binomial = "Rhipidura dryas"
binomial_authority = Gould, 1843

The Arafura Fantail ("Rhipidura dryas"), sometimes known as the Wood Fantail, inhabits the Lesser Sunda Islands, the northern coast of Australia from the Kimberley to the western side of the Cape York Peninsula, including subcoastally in the Top End of the Northern Territory, and southern New Guinea. It is similar to the Rufous Fantail, from which it has been split taxonomically but, apart from minor overlap in the eastern Moluccas, their geographic ranges are discrete. It is generally duller than the Rufous Fantail with the rufous colouration more restricted. [Schodde, R.; & Mason, I.J. (1999). "The Directory of Australian Birds: Passerines". CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne. ISBN 0-643-06456-7] [Christidis, Les; & Boles, Walter E. (2008). "Systematics and taxonomy of Australian birds". CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne. ISBN 9780643065116]

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