Drongo fantail

Species of bird

Drongo fantail
Illustration by John Gould and W. Hart
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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]

References

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2018). "Chaetorhynchus papuensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22706924A130425991. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22706924A130425991.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Orioles, drongos, fantails". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
  3. ^ Irested, Martin; Fuchs, J; Jønsson, KA; Ohlson, JI; Pasquet, E; Ericson, Per G.P. (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?" (PDF). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 48 (3): 1218–1222. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2008.05.038. PMID 18620871.

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Taxon identifiers
Chaetorhynchus papuensis


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