Maluridae

Splendor Season tail ( Malurus cyaneus ), couples

  • Malurus
  • Sipodotus
  • Clytomyias
  • Stipiturus
  • Amytornis

The Australian singer ( Maluridae ) are endemic in Australia and New Guinea family in the order of perching birds ( Passeriformes ). They resemble the wrens, without being more closely related to these. This family includes 14 Season tail types, 3 types of bristle tails and 10 Grasswren.

As with so many Australian species also Maluridae were formerly often erroneously incorporated into known families. They were assigned to the flycatchers, warblers -like and the babblers. Only at the end of the 60s the close relationship of the three species was recognized and introduced in 1975, the family of Australian scientists. Due to the advances in DNA analysis end of the twentieth century, the system was further lightened: Today, the Australian singer are considered close relatives of the honey -eater, Panther birds and snap. The similarity to the European and American wrens explained by convergent evolution of not more closely related species occupy the same ecological niche.

Species and genera

  • Wrens, Malurus Purple head - tail season, Malurus coronatus
  • Splendor Season tail, Malurus cyaneus
  • Turquoise Season tail, Malurus splendens
  • White-bellied Season tail, Malurus lamberti
  • Jewelery Season tail, Malurus amabilis
  • Blue breast - Season tail, Malurus pulcherrimus
  • Silver head - tail season, Malurus elegans
  • White Wing Season tail, Malurus leucopterus
  • Rufous - Season tail, Malurus melanocephalus
  • White Shoulder Season tail, Malurus alboscapulatus
  • Kaiser Season tail, Malurus cyanocephalus
  • Bristletails, Stipiturus Rotstirn - bristle tail, Stipiturus malachurus
  • Malleeborstenschwanz, Stipiturus mallee
  • Rotscheitel - bristle tail, Stipiturus ruficeps
  • Brewing Grasswren, Amytornis barbatus
  • Black-throated Grasswren, Amytornis Housei
  • White-throated Grasswren, Amytornis woodwardi
  • Carpentariagrasschlüpfer, Amytornis dorotheae
  • Strip Grasswren, Amytornis striatus
  • Short-tailed Grasswren, Amytornis merrotsyi
  • Eyregrasschlüpfer, Amytornis goyderi
  • Dickschnabel Grasswren, Amytornis textilis
  • Zimtgrasschlüpfer, Amytornis purnelli
  • Kalkadoon Grasswren, Amytornis ballarae
  • Red- tail season, Clytomyias insignis
  • Rust neck Relay tail, wallacii Sipodotus
Genus Old World babbler Honeyeater
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