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 |
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Synonyms | |
Todopsis wallacii |
Todopsis wallacii
The Wallace's fairywren (Sipodotus wallacii) is a species of bird in the Maluridae family. It is monotypic within the genus Sipodotus. It is found in the Aru Islands and New Guinea, where its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
It is named after Alfred Russel Wallace, a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, and biologist.