Wallace's fairywren
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Maluridae |
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Sipodotus Mathews, 1928 |
| Species: | S. wallacii |
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Sipodotus wallacii (Gray, G.R., 1862) |
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Wallace's fairywren (Sipodotus wallacii) is a species of bird in the Australasian wren family, Maluridae. It is monotypic within the genus Sipodotus. It is found in New Guinea and the Aru Islands, where its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Wallace's fairywren was originally described in the genus Todopsis and it has also been classified in genus Malurus. It is named after Alfred Russel Wallace, a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, and biologist. Alternate names for Wallace's fairywren include the blue-capped fairywren, Wallace's wren, and Wallace's wren-warbler.
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