Wallace's fairywren
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| Genus: | Sipodotus Mathews, 1928
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| Species: | S. wallacii
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| Sipodotus wallacii Gray, 1862
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Todopsis wallacii | |
The Wallace's fairywren (Sipodotus wallacii) is a species of bird in the Maluridae family. It is monotypic within the genus Sipodotus.[2] It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, where its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.[2]
It is named after Alfred Russel Wallace, a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, and biologist.[3]
References
- ^ Template:IUCN
- ^ a b "ITIS Report: Todopsis". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 357–358.
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