Campbell's fairywren
Introduction '''Campbell's fairywren''' ('''''Chenorhamphus campbelli''''') is a species of bird in the Australasian wren family, Maluridae. It is found in New Guinea. It is found in south-central and south-eastern New Guinea in its natural habitat of subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Taxonomy and systematics Formerly, this species was lumped with the broad-billed fairywren in the genus ''Malurus'' until a 2011 analysis of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA showed high divergence between the two subspecies resulting in them being re-split into separate species. The study also found them to lie in a clade with the genera ''Sipodotus'' and ''Clytomyias'' leading to their subsequent re-classification in their own genus, ''Chenorhamphus''. The species is named after Rob Campbell, of Dunfermline, Scotland, who identified it during his time in Papua New Guinea in the 1980s.
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