Chenorhamphus

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

Chenorhamphus
Chenorhamphus grayi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Maluridae
Genus:	Chenorhamphus Oustalet, 1878
Type species
Chenorhamphus cyanopectus[1] Oustalet, 1878
Species
see text

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.^[2]

The genus contains two species:^[3]

• Broad-billed fairywren (Chenorhamphus grayi)
• Campbell's fairywren (Chenorhamphus campbelli)