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Maluridae
Maluridae
Translingual
Proper noun
Maluridae
- A taxonomic family within the order Passeriformes – Australasian wrens.
Hypernyms
- (family): Aves - class; Passeriformes - order; Passeri - suborder; Corvida - parvorder; Meliphagoidea - superfamily
Hyponyms
- (family): Amytornis (grasswrens), Clytomyias (orange-crowned fairywren), Malurus (fairywrens), Sipodotus (Wallace's fairywren), Stipiturus (emu-wrens) (genera)
References
- Gill, F. and Wright, M. (2006) Birds of the World: Recommended English Names, Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0691128276