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The blue-breasted fairywren (''Malurus pulcherrimus'') is a species of passerine bird in the family Maluridae. It is endemic to Australia. ==Taxonomy== John Gould described the blue-breasted fairywren in 1844. its species name is the Latin adjective ''pulcherrimus'' "very pretty". It is one of 11 species of the genus ''Malurus'',m commonly known as fairywrens, found in Australia and lowland New Guinea.〔Rowley & Russell, p. 143〕 Within the genus it belongs to a group of four very similar species known collectively as chestnut-shouldered fairywrens. The other three species are the lovely fairywren (''M. amabilis'') of Cape York, the variegated fairywren (''M. lamberti'') found across most of the continent, and the red-winged fairywren (''M. elegans'') of southwestern Western Australia.〔Rowley & Russell, p. 159〕 Molecular study showed the blue-breasted fairywren to be the most closely related to the red-winged fairywren. Like other fairywrens, the blue-breasted fairywren is unrelated to the true wrens. Initially fairywrens were thought to be a member of the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae or warbler family Sylviidae before being placed in the newly recognised Maluridae in 1975. More recently, DNA analysis has shown the family to be related to Meliphagidae (honeyeaters) and the Pardalotidae in a large superfamily Meliphagoidea. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Blue-breasted fairywren」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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