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Chenorhamphus

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Chenorhamphus is a genus of birds in the Australasian wren family, Maluridae.

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  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassAves
  4. OrderPasseriformes
  5. FamilyMaluridae
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Chenorhamphus is a genus of birds in the Australasian wren family, Maluridae.

== Taxonomy and systematics == The species of the genus Chenorhamphus were formerly classified in the genus Malurus until a 2011 analysis of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA showed high divergence between the two taxa resulting in them being re-split into separate species. The study also found them to lie in a separate clade with the genera Sipodotus and Clytomyias and distinct from the genus Malurus. This led to the subsequent re-classification of the species into their own genus, Chenorhamphus.

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