Vogelkop scrubwren
Species of bird
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The Vogelkop scrubwren (Aethomyias rufescens) is a bird species in the family Acanthizidae. It is endemic to West Papua, Indonesia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
| Vogelkop scrubwren | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Acanthizidae |
| Genus: | Aethomyias |
| Species: | A. rufescens |
| Binomial name | |
| Aethomyias rufescens (Salvadori, 1876) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Sericornis rufescens | |
This species was formerly placed in the genus Sericornis but following the publication of a molecular phylogenetic study of the scrubwrens in 2018, it was moved to the resurrected genus Aethomyias.[2][3]
