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Pygmy drongo

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Scientific name
  
Chaetorhynchus papuensis

Higher classification
  
Chaetorhynchus

Order
  
Passerine

Family
  
Rhipiduridae, see text

Phylum
  
Chordata

Rank
  
Species

Genus
  
Chaetorhynchus A.B. Meyer, 1874

Similar
  
Sulawesi drongo, Sumatran drongo, Wallacean drongo, Hair‑crested drongo, Jobi manucode

The pygmy drongo (Chaetorhynchus papuensis), also known as the pygmy drongo-fantail, drongo fantail, or Papuan drongo, is a species of bird endemic to the island of New Guinea. It is the only species in the genus Chaetorhynchus. The species was long placed within the drongo family Dicruridae, but it differs from others in that family in having twelve rectrices instead of ten. Molecular analysis also supports moving the species out from the drongo family, instead placing it as a sister species to the silktail of Fiji, and both those species in the fantail family Rhipiduridae.

References

Pygmy drongo Wikipedia