| Campbell's fairywren | |
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Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Maluridae |
| Genus: | Chenorhamphus |
| Species: | C. campbelli |
| Binomial name | |
| Chenorhamphus campbelli (Schodde & Weatherly, 1982) | |
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Campbell's fairywren (Chenorhamphus campbelli) is a species ofbird in theAustralasian wren family, Maluridae. It is found inNew Guinea. It is found in south-central and south-eastern New Guinea in its naturalhabitat of subtropical or tropical moist lowlandforests.
Formerly, this species was lumped with thebroad-billed fairywren in the genusMalurus 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 generaSipodotus andClytomyias leading to their subsequent re-classification in their own genus,Chenorhamphus.[1][2] The species is named after Rob Campbell, of Dunfermline, Scotland, who identified it during his time in Papua New Guinea in the 1980s.