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New Zealand wren
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<tr><th bgcolor=pink>Scientific classification
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<tr><td>Kingdom:<td>Animalia
<tr><td>Phylum:<td>Chordata
<tr><td>Class:<td>Aves
<tr><td>Order:<td>Passeriformes
<tr><td>Family:<td>Acanthisittidae
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<tr><th bgcolor=pink>Genera
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Acanthisitta Rifleman
Xenicus
Traversia (extinct)
Pachyplichas (extinct)
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The New Zealand wrens, family Acanthisittidae, are tiny passerines restricted to New Zealand.
They are understood to form a distinct lineage within the passerines, but authorities differ on their assignment to the oscines or suboscines (the two suborders that between them make up the passeriformes). DND-DNA hybridisation studies suggest that they may, in fact, form a third suborder and have no living close relatives at all.
Six species are known, in four genera. At least three, more probably four of the six species are extinct.
- The Rifleman, Acanthisitta chloris.
- The Bush Wren, Xenicus longipes, almost certainly extinct.
- The Rock Wren, Xenicus gilviventris.
- The recently extinct Stephens Island Wren, Traversia lyalli.
- The extinct North Island Stout-legged Wren, Pachyplichas yaldwyni.
- The extinct South Island Stout-legged Wren, P. jagmi.
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